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THE nature of my suggestion (vide NATURE November 15, p. 57) is simply this:—A phenomenon of adhesion between solids immersed in a tensile liquid presents itself. The explanation offered (as I understand it) suggests that whether the bodies are attracted at long or short distances, will be a question entirely of the extension in the stressed medium of the modified layer. If this explanation be a correct one, or if any explanation involving a reaction between a modified layer (whether condensed or rarefied) and a tensile liquid will account for the phenomenon, then I say the experiment is a suggestive one as regards gravitation.
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JOLY, J. Gravitation. Nature 51, 127 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051127b0
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