That has a lot of implications about gravity, the constant speed of light, and various other issues including mass and what we could say about it.

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The force of gravity is a "basic physical constant, " Mr. Minsky, 85, explains.

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If you believe this historic range of returns set up a reasonably stable constant like gravity, then building companies with these metrics in mind is critical.

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Unlike large glass mirrors which are subject to the vagaries of humidity, thermal dynamics and constant deformation from gravity itself, liquid mercury which remains molten at room temperature can reflect as much as 75 percent of incoming starlight with little of the fuss associated with large conventional mirrors.

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His main characters include G, the strength of gravity, h, Planck's constant, which governs the quantum nature of reality at small scales, e, the charge of the electron, and c, the speed of light itself.

ECONOMIST: Modern physics