The first attempts to measure light deflection by the Sun [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11681


Soon after Einstein’s calculation of the effect of the Sun’s gravitational field on the propagation of light in 1911, astronomers around the world tried to measure and verify the value. If the first attempts in Brazil in 1912 or Imperial Russia in 1914 had been successful, they would have proven Einstein wrong.

Read this paper on arXiv…

L. Crispino and S. Paolantonio
Thu, 30 Apr 20
39/71

Comments: 8 pages, 8 figures