SCIENTISTS PLUMB THE MYSTERY OF GRAVITY DISCOVERIES COULD "CHANGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE WORKS.".(FRONT)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | January 13, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: ERIC HAND St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS -- The laboratory is cluttered with dirty dishes, Dorito crumbs, aluminum foil and needle-nose pliers -- the detritus of graduate students whose 600-pound steel-and-wire Tinkertoy is rising in the middle of the room.

With the apparatus, Ramanath Cowsik, a Washington University physicist, will poke and prod at some of the most daunting problems remaining in physics:

What is causing the universe to fly apart, faster and faster each year? Why is gravity so weak and so different from the other basic ...

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