The Eötvös Revolving Balance

The Revolving Door

The revolving door between the government and the private sector has long been presumed to lead to the capture of regulators by industry interests. A growing body of empirical literature, however, either finds no conclusive evidence of a capture effect or finds evidence of an opposite effect that the revolving door indeed results in more aggressive, not less aggressive, regulatory actions. To a...

Lorentz noninvariance and the Eötvös experiments.

We explore the consequences of Lorentz noninvariance (LNI) for the Eotvos experiments in several models. It is shown that a violation of Lorentz invariance leads to an anomalous difference in the gravitational acceleration of two test masses which depends on their composition. Using the present experimental limits from the Eotvos experiments, we then derive a limit on the magnitude of a possibl...

Revolving Door Scenario for

IN THIS ISSUE In this issue of Physics & Society, we continue our series on the risks of nuclear weapons after the Cold War. In their article Illicit Trafficking of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Material: Facts and Uncertainties, Lyudmila Zaitseva and Friedrich Steinhausler have provided us with a very detailed look at what is known about the smuggling of fissile materials. They have also provided a r...

Inductive Signals: Revolving vertebrates

An old idea about the relationship between arthropod and vertebrate body plans has been given new life by studies of the signalling genes controlling dorsal and ventral development in Drosophila and Xenopus.

Esa from Eötvös to Milligal + Final Report