{"id":32508,"date":"2021-03-27T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T23:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2021-03-27T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T23:22:58","slug":"is-bending-the-right-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/27\/is-bending-the-right-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bending The Right Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember way back when, when Albert Einstein had predicted that light could be bent by sufficiently massive objects, and observed in conditions such as … a solar eclipse? And a solar eclipse was scheduled to occur a century ago?<\/p>\n

Dr. Tony Phillips has the story<\/a> on Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

On May 29, 1919, the Moon slid in front of the sun and forever altered our understanding of spacetime. It was \u201cEinstein\u2019s Eclipse.\u201d Using the newly-developed theory of relativity, the young German physicist predicted that the sun\u2019s gravity should bend starlight\u2013an effect which could be seen only during a total eclipse. Some of the greatest astronomers of the age rushed to check his prediction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the cherry on top:<\/p>\n

More than 100 years later, Petr Hor\u00e1lek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Institute of Physics in Opava) and Miloslav Druckm\u00fcller (Brno University of Technology) have just released a stunning restoration of the photo that proved Einstein right:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The stars that were in the position predicted by relativity are down in the lower right, although frankly I have no idea which ones – I suppose any of them prove the point, assuming they have deviated from the position predicted by previous theories by the expected amount.<\/p>\n

But I just like the pic. That prominence on the upper right is fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember way back when, when Albert Einstein had predicted that light could be bent by sufficiently massive objects, and observed in conditions such as … a solar eclipse? And a solar eclipse was scheduled to occur a century ago? Dr. Tony Phillips has the story on Spaceweather.com: On May 29, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32510,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/32510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}