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Revised Solar Deflection Reaches Full Relativistic Value

With the completed geometric treatment of gravity, Einstein obtained a solar light-deflection prediction approximately twice the value produced by his earlier equivalence-principle calculation.

Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna in 1921
Albert Einstein lecturing in Vienna, 1921. Photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer — public domain. Wikimedia Commons source.
Year 1915BerlinAstronomy

Revised Solar Deflection Reaches Full Relativistic Value

November 1915 · Berlin · Germany · Astronomy

With the completed geometric treatment of gravity, Einstein obtained a solar light-deflection prediction approximately twice the value produced by his earlier equivalence-principle calculation.