nongravitational
- a word derived from gravitation.
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And when bathed in sunlight, they display plenty of nongravitational acceleration, notes Jane Luu, an astronomer at Tufts University, who was not involved in the new research.
From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2023
So the holographic principle says that because of the presence of black holes, quantum gravity should be formulated as a more prosaic nongravitational quantum system in fewer dimensions.
From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2022
In the end, they found that all known nongravitational forces would be at least 10 times smaller than the gravitational interaction.
From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2021
The results, published in Nature today, bring physicists one step closer to the distant goal of reconciling gravity with quantum mechanics, the theory underlying all of nongravitational physics.
From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2021
Apparently this accounts for the nongravitational motions that astronomers had previously observed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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