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Gravity of everyday objects measured

Recorded year2022

Instruments map the faint gravity of objects metres away.

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Built on

Laser cooling of atomsRecorded · 1978enables
Bose-Einstein condensateRecorded · 1995enables
Gravity-mapping satellitesRecorded · 2002enables

Led to

Artificial gravitational wavesForecast · ~2093enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.