Cavendish experiment is one of the fundamental experiments in physics and today there are thousands of practicing physicists ((what is the actual number and how can I find this?)) and only 1 or 2 among them read Cavendish’s original paper ((Laurent Hodges is one of them. Another is B. E. Clotfelter who wrote “The Cavendish experiment as Cavendish knew it.” ‘American Journal of Physics, 55:210, 1987)) and none actually duplicated the experiment. But despite their total ignorance of the Cavendish experiment physicists argue that Cavendish measured the Newtonian force.
- Cavendish measured the Newtonian force = false
- Cavendish measured the Newtonian force = true
I say that 1 is true. Physicists say that 2 is true.
Here I want to point out that there can be no yes or no answers in physics. ((A lawyer will never give you a yes or no answer to any question. A physicist is also a professional and he will never give you a yes or no answer and the answer you would get will be yes, no, not even yes or no maybe yes maybe no and anything in between and physicist will prove all of his yes and no answers with impeccable mathematics. You’d be sorry you asked.)) Consequently there are no crucial experiments in academic physics. This observation makes physics the modern scholasticism.
