they look like scales or like this https://www.planolith.de/site/assets/files/1039/untergestell-mit-schwingungsisolierung-1.png
i would first try the experiment with just plexiglass on all 5 (or 6) sides and add more levels of difficulty if i didnt see consistent results as expected.
So you would just keep adjusting the experiment until you got the result you wanted? I imagine a lot of these people that performed these experiments did the same thing. They stopped once they saw what they thought should happen.
I think we need to start with a vacuum. It seems to be the correct way to perform this experiment, with no draft possible.
if that's how you see it. but you might be doing unnecessary work. i believe if the gentlemen with the tie was able to keep his device from moving around, that the rest would fall into place.
that is not a matter of "doing the experiment over and over until getting the results wanted."
it is a matter of getting consistent, repeatable, results every time you place the weights down.
but i agree the vacuum would be way cooler, and way more repeatable
He couldn't keep it from moving, the draft causes it to move. The experiment is super-sensitive. You can't do it with air moving around at all.
I think we agree on this. Other people do too: https://www.quora.com/How-do-flat-Earthers-explain-the-Cavendish-experiment
It's weird that the Cavendish experiment hasn't been done in a vacuum.
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