Well yawn, what else would we expect? I do though wonder how they account 
for the differential gravitational acceleration due to tidal interaction 
and Weyl curvature.

LC

On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 5:26:14 PM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com 
wrote:

> The "MICROSCOPE" experiment was devised to test Einstein's equivalence 
> principle with 100 times greater precision than had ever been achieved 
> before, the idea that all objects fall in a gravitational field at exactly 
> the same speed. MICROSCOPE consisted of a 402 gram platinum cylinder inside 
> a 300 gram titanium outer cylinder that was in orbit for 2 1/2 years. Any 
> deviations from the equivalence principle would cause the two cylinders to 
> move relative to each other, but no such movement was detected, so any 
> violation of the equivalency principle must be less than one part in a 
> thousand trillion or 10^15. An even more precise satellite, MICROSCOPE-2, 
> is planned to be launched by 2030 and it will test it to one part in 10^18.
>
> MICROSCOPE Mission: Final Results of the Test of the Equivalence Principle 
> <https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.121102>
>
> John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis 
> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
> rwe
>

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