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Has anyone tried to measure a change in gravity?
Imagine I hang a mass from the ceiling of a building using a rope.
The mass is hanging 2m above the floor.

Also tied "in line" with this rope, and between the weight and the ceiling, is a scale that measures the weight of the mass.
Let's say the scale reads 10 Newtons.

Now, between the weight and the floor, I insert blades of different materials, in an effort to "block" gravity.
Maybe a blade of lead, or gold, or diamonds, or glass etc.

Has anyone tried experiments like these, to see if some materials can "block" gravity between the Earth and the mass, and notice any change in the hanging scale?
 
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I don’t know such experiments have been done but I assume the blade would become new additional gravity source to attract the device.
 
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brajesh said:
Summary:: Has anyone tried to measure a change in gravity?

Imagine I hang a mass from the ceiling of a building using a rope.
The mass is hanging 2m above the floor.

Also tied "in line" with this rope, and between the weight and the ceiling, is a scale that measures the weight of the mass.
Let's say the scale reads 10 Newtons.

Now, between the weight and the floor, I insert blades of different materials, in an effort to "block" gravity.
Maybe a blade of lead, or gold, or diamonds, or glass etc.

Has anyone tried experiments like these, to see if some materials can "block" gravity between the Earth and the mass, and notice any change in the hanging scale?
During a solar eclipse, the gravity of the Sun isn't blocked by the Moon!
 
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PeroK said:
During a solar eclipse, the gravity of the Sun isn't blocked by the Moon!
Lunar eclipse is an even better example because the entire Moon is in the Earth's total shadow (umbra).
 
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brajesh said:
Imagine I hang a mass from the ceiling of a building using a rope.
The mass is hanging 2m above the floor...

Has anyone tried experiments like these, to see if some materials can "block" gravity between the Earth and the mass, and notice any change in the hanging scale?
A building? Floor? Which floor? What building? Yes, of course people use scales all the time with different materials/amounts between them and Earth.