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Back to Episodes#12 Proving Einstein's relativity in outback Australia. A cracking tale of spacebending gravity
Season 1
Episode 12
Published 6 years, 10 months ago
Description
So Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted black holes, or more specifically, that gravity could warp spacetime. But how could we prove it? Here's a ripping yarn about some astronomers who travelled across the world in 1922 to test Einstein's theory during a solar eclipse in far north western Australia.
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