I am not knocking on you personally, this is the standard response from the "science" world. Saying it's been done and then showing me a picture of a fancy device doesn't mean anything to me, but to a lesser informed, trusting person they might think the whole of the science community is in agreement based upon repeatable observations.
We are told that Cavendish pull this experiment off 300 years ago with candlelight, some crude pendulums along with mirrors and scopes. This is from Wired on the problem, "...physicist
Stephan Schlamminger of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who was not involved in this work but was part of a different team that measured G in 2006. “People want to measure G because it’s difficult to measure; it’s like climbing Mount Everest,” he said."
So Cavendish did what is today really difficult with modern manufacturing techniques and technology. Cavendish would be on the level of what an amateur hobbyist could do in his garage and yet he pulled off what now needs sophisticated equipment and techniques. I'm saying that the community as a whole can't repeat this, we have to trust the Masons. Cavendish, is pictured with his hand hidden in breast pocket. VC has an article about that, it appears that Cavendish is part of that club.
You can easily reverse engineer the number if you make up the mass of the Earth based on density, you just sub that number in a formula and you determine big G, the rest is middle school algebra. I think there is more to this than we know and to blindly trust the establishment is a mistake. For those who want an ELI5 or explanation that walks you through the process of why this is a problem watch this
- (I am not crazy about RFB and am not endorsing him here)
Why wouldn't they want to manipulate this number? It keeps the world in the dark about our actual reality. There's a motive and a means, this is suspect, wouldn't you say?