Today Oxford University scientists are joining in a special celebration of the first test of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity on the remote African island where the ground-breaking experiment took place.
Detail from the plaque commemorating Eddington’s experiment which took place on the Island of Principe.
29 May is the 90th anniversary of the first test of Albert Einstein’s new theory of gravity: a test that paved the way for the gravitational lensing technique now used by astronomers to search for mysterious dark matter and dark energy.
‘Without Eddington’s clever experiment and the fortuitous timing of this total eclipse it might have taken ages before Einstein’s theory of gravity, first proposed in 1915, was proven to be correct,’ said Professor Pedro Ferreira
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