EINSTEIN WINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18757, 14 April 1923, Page 5

EINSTEIN WINS

THEORY PROVED CORRECT

LICK OBSERVATORY’S CONCLUSIONS

ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL AGREEMENT.

Lick observatory confirms Professor Einstein's stellar displacement theory, about which so much has been heard during the past few months.

TICK OBSERVATORY CONCLUSIONS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL AGREEMENT. NEW YORK, April 12. A telegram from Mount Hamilton, California, states that calculations made from eclipse photographs taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Wallal bear ou,t the Einstein theory. Two photographs of the stars surrounding the sun during the eclipse were taken, and these compared with photographs of the same stars taken at Tahiti three months earlier. Director Campbell and Dr. Trumpler, of the Lick Observatory, announce that the agreement between Einstein’s prediction (as to the displacement of the stars’ rays outward with reference to the centre of the sun) and the extremely exact measurements made by these two scientists of the photographic plates is absolutely phenomenal. Einstein predicted that the displacement of the stars’ rays while passing through the sun’s gravitational field would be one and three-quarter seconds of the arc. The scientists, after subjecting as many as eightyfour stars appearing on the plates to rigorous mathematical treatment, found the displacements averaged 1.74 seconds of the arcs. Dr Campbell states: “The agreement of our observed value with the predicted value is so satisfactory that the Lick Observatory does not plan to repeat the Einstein test at the total solar star eclipse due to occur in California and Mexico on the 10th September.”