Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity 120
StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "It's hard to believe, but there are people alive today who remember a world where Newtonian gravity was the accepted theory of gravitation governing our Universe. 95 years ago today, the 1919 solar eclipse provided the data that would provide the test of the three key options for how light would respond to the presence of a gravitational field: would it not bend at all? Would it bend according to Newton's predictions if you took the "mass" of a photon to be E/c^2? Or would it bend according to the predictions of Einstein's wacky new idea? Celebrate the 95th anniversary of relativity's confirmation by reliving the story."
95? (Score:1, Funny)
Meh, anniversaries are relative.
Re:I don't believe in relativity (Score:5, Funny)
It's nowhere to be found in Genesis.
Sure it is! How do you think Methuselah lived for 969 years? Time dilation, dude.
Re:tachyon (Score:3, Funny)
Lorenz contraction, says the tachyon.
Why the long face? asks the barman.
A tachyon walks into a bar.