2020/01/11 by M. J. Mueterthies, Michael J. Mueterthies, Ephraim Fischbach +11
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2001.03752
24 pages, 11 figures
arxiv created 2020/01/11 · openalex publication_date 2020/01/11 · arxiv updated 2020/01/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a generalized phenomenological formalism for analyzing the original Eötvös experiment in the presence of gravity and a generic "5th force." To date no evidence for a 5th force has emerged since its presence was suggested by a 1986 reanalysis of the 1922 publication coauthored by Eötvös, Pekàr, and Fekete (EPF). However, our generalized analysis introduces new mechanisms capable in principle of accounting for the EPF data, while at the same time avoiding detection by most recent experiments carried out to date. As an example, some of these mechanisms raise the possibility that the EPF signal could have arisen from an unexpected direction if it originated from the motion of the Earth through a medium.