Talk:Arthur Stanley Eddington
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An event mentioned in this article is a May 29 selected anniversary.
I have removed from the article the folowing statement:
- From the 1920s until his death, he increasingly concentrated on what he called "fundamental theory" which was intended to be a unification of quantum theory, relativity and gravitation, based on almost numerological analysis of the dimensionless ratios of fundamental constants.
From what I've just read about him, this is a gross exaggeration. Investigation under way. -- looxix 02:57 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)
- I believe that it relevant ... and I did find a book in 1928 called the fundamental theory. So, unless there is evidence to refute that ... I'm gonna put it back in. JDR
Eddington's experimental investigation of general relativity grew directly out his Quaker peace witness, since he wanted to revive cooperation between German and British physicists after the war. This is documented in an article published in Isis (a prominent history-of-science journal) last year, but I have yet to find any online corroboration, which is why I'm putting this claim on the talk page for now. Arkuat 02:29, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
Under Biography, the word "headmaster of Stramongate..." was edited into "hI HATE NIGGERSeadmaster of Stramongate..." This was done by IP address 24.222.146.103, as you can tell on the history page.
This page has since been vandalised again by 81.179.108.9. Could someone revert it? I don't know how.Leon... 07:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reverted vandalism by 195.194.227.196 again
I reverted 195.194.227.196's changes again. On 27 April, that user deleted most of the article, which I undid later that day. On 2 May, 195.194.227.196 inserted this:
- Eddington was one of the least significant astrophysicists of the early 20th century. His efforts to produce a general theory of astrophysics ultimately ended in failure.
- Racist fool proved to be comprehensively wrong about his criticism of the work of S Chandrashekhar. Fittingly, the best rebuke to his bigoted prejudice was the fact that Chandra was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983 for the very work Eddington was too thick to understand.
Obviously, these changes violate NPOV and other Wikipedia style policies. I undid them. 84.238.10.31 19:20, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
The Quakers were fairly instrumental in the Underground railroad.
[edit] eclipse question
"Newtonian gravitation predicted half the shift of general relativity."
wouldn't newtonian gravity predict zero shift, since in newton's formulation gravity does not affect light?
- Why do you think gravity would not affect light? See Light#Particle_theory --Henrygb 13:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
