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I am at Sir Isaac Newton's house, Woolsthorpe Manor in England. My weight is 308.58g. This is 0.04g heavier than I am in London. This is consistent with the previous results from my experiment. I am currently 186 kilometres North of London, and the further I travel from the equator, the heavier I will get.
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Gravity varies slightly, wherever you go. So can we measure this phenomenon with a set of Kern scales and our travelling assistant?
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  The travelling garden gnome

"After Kern the Gnome's visit to the South Pole, we got up to three invitations a minute on our web site for visits from all over the world" - James Nester from the Kern and Sohn company in Germany.

Given the physics involved in this experiment, it gave the Gnome Team the idea to send their little ambassador on a tour of famous physics landmarks.

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