The aim of this study was to examine the effect of body and head tilts on the haptic oblique effect. This effect reflects the more accurate processing of vertical and horizontal orientations, relative to oblique orientations. Body or head tilts lead to a mismatch between egocentric and gravitational axes and indicate whether the haptic oblique effect is defined in an egocentric or a gravitation...

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the Eötvös experiment, tests of special relativity, and the gravitational redshift experiment. Future tests of EEP and of the inverse square law will search for new interactions arising from unificat...

The gravitational force on antimatter has never been directly measured, largely because electromagnetic forces overwhelm gravitational forces and no form of low-energy neutral antimatter has been available. However, the technology to make low-energy antihydrogen is currently being developed. We have designed an atomic interferometer that can measure the force of gravity on hydrogen or antihydro...

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analysing them are reviewed. Einstein’s equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the Eötvös experiment, tests of special relativity, and the gravitational redshift experiment. Future tests of EEP will search for new interactions arising from unification or quantum gravity. Tests ...

Type II superconductors will be considered as macroscopic quantum gravitational antennas, which can simultaneously also be used as efficient transducers for converting electromagnetic radiation into gravitational radiation, and vice versa. A Meissner-like effect, in which the LenseThirring field associated with a gravity wave is expelled from the interior of the superconductor, is predicted. An...

Measurement of the Gravitational Constant G 8 Measurement of the Gravitational Constant G F. Nolting, J. Schurr, E. Holzschuh, and W. K undig The most precise published results for the gravitational constant G have claimed uncertainties of about 100 ppm. Such measurements are usually done by some variant of the Cavendish torsion balance [1], but other methods have also been tried. During the l...

In order to directly demonstrate that in static gravitational field the rate of clocks increases with their distance from the source a simple thought experiment is proposed.