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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 ...
21 paź 2021 · In a paired argument against the robustness of the eclipse report's conclusion, Earman and Glymour claim the three-way theory choice (‘trichotomy’) adopted by Eddington was inadequate—Eddington ‘repeatedly posed a false trichotomy for the deflection results’.
15 kwi 2019 · Enter Arthur Stanley Eddington. An astronomer interested in Einstein’s theory because of its wide-ranging implications for astrophysics and cosmology, Eddington took on the task of proving it.
29 maj 2019 · One hundred years ago, in 1919, Sir Arthur Eddington and his associates led expeditions from England to Principe Island in the Gulf of Guinea and to Sobral, Brazil to test Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity.
Eddington to autor pierwszego bezpośredniego dowodu ogólnej teorii względności Einsteina, znalezionego w 1919 roku dzięki obserwacji zaćmienia Słońca. Nazwiskiem astronoma nazwano też jasność Eddingtona – graniczną wartość, przy której ciśnienie promieniowania jest w stanie nie dopuścić do spadania materii (w polu grawitacyjnym) na zwarty obiekt.
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 · In preparation for the voyage, Eddington obtained micrometers to measure the tiny shifts of starlight on photographic plates. And he studied how best to develop those photographic plates in hot and humid conditions. He wanted to avoid distortions that could mimic the warping of space. Arthur Eddington
