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The Eddington experiment was an observational test of general relativity, organised by the British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington in 1919. The observations were of the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 and were carried out by two expeditions, one to the West African island of Príncipe, and the other to the ...
15 kwi 2019 · One of the effects predicted by the new theory was that light rays passing close to a massive body, such as a star, should be bent by its gravitational field. This effect had been predicted...
21 paź 2021 · The 1919 published eclipse results were revisited in 1980, with a new interpretation of the evidence and claims about Eddington's bias, which were then further widely publicized and discussed in the context of a philosophical debate about science.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (ur. 28 grudnia 1882 w Kendal, zm. 22 listopada 1944 w Cambridge) – brytyjski astronom, astrofizyk teoretyczny i popularyzator tych nauk; profesor Uniwersytetu w Cambridge i dyrektor tamtejszego obserwatorium astronomicznego.
According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field. Eddington showed that Newtonian gravitation could be interpreted to predict half the shift predicted by Einstein.
29 maj 2019 · Sir Arthur Eddington's experiment.PNG. Credit: Jeremy Britton. Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity predicts that the path of starlight should bend 0.87 arcseconds as it passes the sun's edge. An arcsecond is 1/60 of an arcminute, or 1/3600 of a degree, a very small angle.
1 wrz 2005 · It was because of his determined efforts to maintain international scientific ties that Eddington was the only British scientist to receive news in 1916, via the Dutch physicist Willem de Sitter, of a new theory of gravity that was being developed in Berlin by a talented young physicist called Albert Einstein.
