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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The relativistic model was demonstrated to better describe the transit of Venus than Newtonian mechanics. It had been quickly proposed as a good test, was generally accepted as the crucial experiment, and all of this happened very fast.

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 0 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Source?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It was actually Mercury, and Einstein himself proposed it.

[–] passiveaggressivesonar 3 points 21 hours ago

Thank you, I've got a lot of reading to do

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