In June 1987, researchers with Scripps Institute of Oceanography set up an absolute gravity meter in the 4-H room in the fairgrounds’ McPherson Barn, calibrating equipment for an experiment in Greenland aimed at finding a mysterious force suspected of acting in opposition to gravity.
In May, researchers for the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute and two universities in Japan set up a gravity meter on the very same spot at the fairgrounds. They’re using the…