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I REGRET that I cannot agree with Dr. Joly's suggestion (vide p. 57 supra) that the curious adhesion which I observed between solids immersed in a stretched liquid, lends itself to any explanation of gravitation on the lines that he indicates. The phenomenon is, and was described by me as, one of adhesion, and not, as Dr. Joly puts it, of attraction, for there was no evidence of any approach of bodies separated by a measurable thickness of liquid, and there is, further, no reason to suppose that the phenomenon would occur unless the medium were already modified in the neighbourhood of the solid surfaces, i.e. unless a condition which we may provisionally ascribe to gravitation already existed. For this reason Dr. Joly's suggestion appears to me to be an invitation to argue in a circle.
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WORTHINGTON, A. Gravitation. Nature 51, 79 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051079b0
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