> I have also read some crazy accounts of how Einstein's Theory was proved
FWIW, this was the observations during the solar eclipse of 1919, by Eddington and a bunch of less famous people. It apparently made headlines at the time.
FWIW, this was the observations during the solar eclipse of 1919, by Eddington and a bunch of less famous people. It apparently made headlines at the time.
All I'm saying is some accounts seem to really exaggerate how much this effect was.
The British officer story happened in Korea IIRC, the custom at the time wasn't cannibalism, but that women who lost their husbands would be killed to join them in the afterlife.
The discrepancy between Mercury's perihelion precession and Newtonian gravity had been observed long before Einstein developed general relativity. Calculations under general relativity correctly determined Mercury's perihelion advance, but general relativity did not predict the perihelion advance, since it was already known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_precession_of_Mercu...