THE EINSTEIN THEORY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1923, Page 3

THE EINSTEIN THEORY.

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PROVED TO BE CORRECT. FURTHER TESTS UNNECESSARY. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIU.It ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 12 A telegram from Mount Hamilton. California, stales that calculations made from the eclipse photographs taken by the Lick Observatory expedition to V nihil, bear out the Einstein theory. Two photographs of the stars surrounding the sun during the eclipse were taken and these compared with the photographs of the same stars taken at Tahiti three months earlier. Director Campbell and Doctor Truplor. of the Lick Observatory, announce that the agreement I..'tween Einstein's prediction (that the displacement oi stars was outwards with reference to centre of the sun) and the extremely exact measurements made by those two scientists of the photographic plates is absolutely phenomenal. Einstein predicted that the displacement of the star rays, while passing through the sun's gravitational field, would be one and three quarters seconds of the arc. Ibe scientists, alter subjecting as many as 81 stars appearing on the plates to rigoious mathematical treatment, found tin displacement averaged 1.71 seconds < the are.

Director Campbell states: “’I lie agreement of our observed value with the predicted value is -o -at is fact my that the Lick Observatory does not plan to repent the Einstein test at the total solar eclipse tine to occur in California and Mexico on the lOtli September."