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Physicists test the weak equivalence principle in an orbiting space station

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  • Phys.org · September 2, 2026 13:30
    The weak equivalence principle (WEP) is central to Einstein's general relativity. It posits that gravity must accelerate everything equally, regardless of what it is made from. For the first time, a team led by Ming-Sheng Zhan at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics has tested the…