On Jul 15, 5:13***pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 7:16***am, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/20...innocent..html
> > "ArthurEddingtonwas innocent!"
>
> > http://www.cieletespace.fr/evenement...taient-fausses
> > "Relativité: les preuves étaient fausses"
>
> > http://www.cieletespaceradio.fr/inde...-la-relativite
> > "Au début du XXème siècle, des scientifiques comme le Britannique
> > Arthur Eddington avaient tant à coeur de vérifier la théorie de la
> > relativité qu'ils ont tout mis en oeuvre pour que leurs expériences
> > soient probantes."
>
> > http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar...out-relativity
> > "The eclipse experiment finally happened in 1919 (you’re looking at it
> > on this very page). Eminent British physicist Arthur Eddington
> > declared general relativity a success, catapulting Einstein into fame
> > and onto coffee mugs. In retrospect, it seems that Eddington fudged
> > the results, throwing out photos that showed the “wrong” outcome. No
> > wonder nobody noticed: At the time of Einstein’s death in 1955,
> > scientists still had almost no evidence of general relativity in
> > action."
>
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1372828/posts
> "British astronomer A. Eddington... "believed" in Relativity and
> wished to make it more acceptable. Eclipse photos showing the shifting
> of star images by the gravitational influence of the eclipsed sun
> might do the job. On the day of the eclipse, Principe was bedevilled
> by clouds, and only 2 photographic plates were deemed marginally
> acceptable. At Sobral, 18 poor plates and 8 better plates were
> obtained. The problem was that the 18 poor plates yielded a deflection
> of starlight much smaller than predicted by Relativity, while the 8
> better plates produced a much higher value. By adding the 2 plates
> from Principe to the mix, Eddington managed to come up with a number
> close to that required by the Theory of Relativity. It was not the
> clear-cut victory for Einstein that the textbooks proclaim...
> Eddington let ideology affect his conclusion. Even today, the results
> from the 1919 eclipse are still proclaimed to be proof of Relativity."

Another interpretation of the fraud (Einsteinians know no limits):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...to-albert.html
New Scientist: Ode to Albert
"Enter another piece of luck for Einstein. We now know that the light-
bending effect was actually too small for Eddington to have discerned
at that time. Had Eddington not been so receptive to Einstein's
theory, he might not have reached such strong conclusions so soon, and
the world would have had to wait for more accurate eclipse
measurements to confirm general relativity."

Pentcho Valev
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