June 9th, 2003, 07:56 PM
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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
If the gravitational constant was different over at alpha centauri, for example, then the stars would be orbiting each other at the "wrong" speed.
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But to tell how fast they "should" be orbiting each other, you need to know how massive they are, which is calculated from G and how fast they are orbiting each other. Using G to calculate G in such a manner is circular reasoning; it isn't reliable. It is probably the same everywhere, but we can't be certain until we send people over there to take local measurements.
[ June 09, 2003, 18:57: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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