Abstract: We have carefully reexamined the experiments described by Salviati on the acceleration of objects at the Earth’s surface and find evidence for the existence of a new force. An archival search indicates that this result is supported by earlier work of Aristotle.
It is commonly assumed that the work of Galileo Galilei and collaborators 1 established the basis for the Newtonian theory of universal gravitation, later refined by Einstein. However, we note here that a careful examination of their published results indicates a potential anomaly, which could represent evidence for a new self-coupling resulting in a velocity-dependent force for baryonic matter. Confirmation of this result could help explain earlier anomalous results reported by Aristotle. 2 It is possible that other anomalous results 3–5 may also be explained in terms of this new effect.
In the absence of relativistic effects, and other external nongravitational perturbations, Einstein’s theory predicts a coupling...
