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February 18, 2006

SCIENTISTS DARE TO QUESTION GRAVITY
Controversy arose this week when researchers at St. Andrews University questioned the commonly accepted tenets of gravity: that it is a universal force. Doctor Hong Sheng Zhao and Doctor Benoit Famaey, forwarding a theory from the early 1980's, believe that gravity changes depending on where you are in the universe, and have a formula to support their claims. This could be used to explain why stars at the end of the spiral arms of galaxies do not simply break away and fly off into space. This would also eliminate the need for "dark matter," the unseen substance making up 96% of the universe that (by Newtonian physics) is necessary to account for the gravity between stars.

The new formula will be debated at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory in April.

-news.scotsman.com: Scotland is the centre of a gravity revolution

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