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The True Story Behind How Albert Einstein Was Proved Right At A Solar Eclipse 100 Years Ago Today

Jamie CarterSenior Contributor

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The existence of a planet Vulcan was disproved almost accidentally on 29 May 1919 when the results of a study of a total solar eclipse proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was proved[+]

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For precisely 100 years, as of today, Albert Einstein has been a proven genius. His incredible general theory of relativity has since been fundamental to our understanding of the nature of reality, specifically of how the cosmos works.

The decisive factor? An ultra-long total solar eclipse, the solar siblings of which still wow eclipse-chasers and solar scientists today.

How was Einstein proved right?

On May 29, 1919, astronomers from Britain traveled to Africa and Brazil to measure the exact position of stars in the Hyades star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It was part of an ambitious, complicated and controversial attempt to see if, during an eclipse when the sky briefly darkened in the day, the stars appeared to be in the place where Isaac Newton’s long-accepted laws of motion predicted they would be, or whether they were where new-kid-on-the-block Einstein predicted. If the latter, science would have proof that the Sun (and, therefore, all stars and planets) curved space-time.