Wrap yourself in Light
by Patricia Januszkiewicz
Title
Wrap yourself in Light
Artist
Patricia Januszkiewicz
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Digital Art
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Wrap yourself in Light ... keeps the darkness away!
While many physicists would have believed it to be impossible, Albert Einstein's prediction that light could be bent by gravity acted to change the course of physics.
Einstein's bold prediction that light would be bent by a gravitational field was stunningly confirmed by observations made on May 29, 1919, during a total solar eclipse. Astronomers made very careful measurements of the positions of stars near the sun during the eclipse. They saw that their apparent positions were deflected by a distance of 1.7 seconds of arc, a very small distance, but the amount Einstein had predicted. This measurement pushed the boundaries of scientific accuracy at the time, but it was precise enough to confirm Einstein's theory.
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November 12th, 2012
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