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Old July 13th 08, 04:11 PM posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,fr.sci.physique,fr.sci.astrophysique,sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default EINSTEINIANA: THE SIRIUS B FRAUD

http://www.answers.com/topic/arthur-...cat=technology
"Further support came in 1924 when Einstein's prediction of the
reddening of starlight by the gravitational field of the star was
tested: at Eddington's request Walter Adams detected and measured the
shift in wavelength of the spectral lines of Sirius B, the dense white-
dwarf companion of the star Sirius. Eddington thus did much to
establish Einstein's theory..."

In fact, Eddington fooled Walter Adams into measuring the wrong
gravitational redshift. Details he

http://www.cieletespaceradio.fr/inde...-la-relativite

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