10 years of peer review to conclude the floor still works.
Scientists open 10-year-old sealed envelope on gravity, find it still makes no sense
Scientists unsealed an envelope they had sealed a decade earlier to test whether the physics of gravity would make more sense to them by now. It did not. The results were published anyway, which means somewhere a grant committee read the phrase "still unexplained" and reached for the stamp that says approved.
Source: Scientists open 10-year-old sealed envelope on gravity, find it still makes no sense — ScienceDaily
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