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James E. Faller (born January 17, 1934) is an American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program, the goal of which, was to fire high powered laser beams at special retroreflectors placed on the Moon by Apollo program Astronauts. He invented a gravity motion sensor, called the Absolute Gravimeter, which is sensitive enough to detect changes in the local gravitational field due to a person's mass. His work has been featured in many books and magazines, such as National Geographic. In 2001, his gravity detection device was featured on the Science Channel in the show and was used to debunk anti-gravity devices that were for sale on the market. All devices tested on the show did not produce any kinds of gravitational anomalies
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| dbo:abstract | James E. Faller (born January 17, 1934) is an American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program, the goal of which, was to fire high powered laser beams at special retroreflectors placed on the Moon by Apollo program Astronauts. He invented a gravity motion sensor, called the Absolute Gravimeter, which is sensitive enough to detect changes in the local gravitational field due to a person's mass. His work has been featured in many books and magazines, such as National Geographic. In 2001, his gravity detection device was featured on the Science Channel in the show and was used to debunk anti-gravity devices that were for sale on the market. All devices tested on the show did not produce any kinds of gravitational anomalies. In that same year, he received the Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science. His research interests include geophysics, experimental relativity, fundamental constants, and precision measurement experiments designed to look for possible invalidations of accepted physical laws at extreme magnitudes. He currently works for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and is working on a new measurement of G, the Newtonian constant of gravitation. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | James E. Faller (born January 17, 1934) is an American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program, the goal of which, was to fire high powered laser beams at special retroreflectors placed on the Moon by Apollo program Astronauts. He invented a gravity motion sensor, called the Absolute Gravimeter, which is sensitive enough to detect changes in the local gravitational field due to a person's mass. His work has been featured in many books and magazines, such as National Geographic. In 2001, his gravity detection device was featured on the Science Channel in the show and was used to debunk anti-gravity devices that were for sale on the market. All devices tested on the show did not produce any kinds of gravitational anomalies (en) |
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