For unknown reasons, Einsteinians are only moderately dishonest when it comes to Eddington's 1919 experiment (there is some truth in their explanations):
Sabine Hossenfelder: "As light carries energy and is thus subject of gravitational attraction, a ray of light passing by a massive body should be slightly bent towards it. This is so both in Newton's theory of gravity and in Einstein's, but Einstein's
deflection is by a factor two larger than Newton's. [...] As history has it, Eddington's original data actually wasn't good enough to make that claim with certainty. His measurements had huge error bars due to bad weather and he also might have cherry-
picked his data because he liked Einstein's theory a little too much. Shame on him. Be that as it may, dozens of subsequent measurement proved his premature announcement correct. Einstein was right, Newton was wrong."
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/
2015/04/a-wonderful-100th-anniversary-gift-for.html
Stephen Hawking: "Einsteins prediction of light deflection could not be tested immediately in 1915, because the First World War was in progress, and it was not until 1919 that a British expedition, observing an eclipse from West Africa, showed that light
was indeed deflected by the sun, just as predicted by the theory. This proof of a German theory by British scientists was hailed as a great act of reconciliation between the two countries after the war. It is ionic, therefore, that later examination of
the photographs taken on that expedition showed the errors were as great as the effect they were trying to measure. Their measurement had been sheer luck, or a case of knowing the result they wanted to get, not an uncommon occurrence in science."
http://
www.epubsbook.com/books/2203_7.html
New Scientist: "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."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16321935.300-ode-to-albert.html
In contrast, Kip Thorne's dishonesty knows no limits. He teaches that Newton's theory predicted no gravitational deflection of starlight (one of the most blatant lies in the history of science):
Kip Thorne: "A second crucial proof of the breakdown in Newtonian gravity was the relativistic bending of light. Einstein's theory predicted that starlight passing near the limb of the sun should be deflected by 1.75 seconds of arc, whereas NEWTON'S LAW
PREDICTED NO DEFLECTION. Observations during the 1919 eclipse of the sun in Brazil, carried out by Sir Arthur Eddington and his British colleagues, brilliantly confirmed Einstein's prediction to an accuracy of about 20 percent. This dealt the final death
blow to Newton's law and to most other relativistic theories of gravity."
http://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3169&context=space-congress-proceedings
Physicists, is it possible that Kip Thorne was lying about the gravitational waves?
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