Newton devised his universal law of gravitation for planets, but does it work at small scales? A search for a deviation from the expected behaviour could provide the first evidence in support of string theory.
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Hoyle, C. The weight of expectation. Nature 421, 899–900 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/421899a
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