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No shadow of a doubt : the 1919 eclipse that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity

by Kennefick, Daniel, author

in Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944. / Dyson, Frank Watson, 1868-1939. / Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. / General relativity (Physics) / Gravity. / Solar eclipses.

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No shadow of a doubt : the 1919 eclipse that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity

Kennefick, Daniel, author

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In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to \"weigh light\" by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner?

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Princeton University Press

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Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.

/ Dyson, Frank Watson, 1868-1939.

/ Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

/ General relativity (Physics)

/ Gravity.

/ Solar eclipses.

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