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unusual facts about Arthur Eddington


Chapman Cohen

Cohen criticised what he saw as mystical tendencies in the writings of some physicists, such as Arthur Eddington.


Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric

In the face of the observational evidence for the expansion of the universe obtained by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s, Lemaître's results were noticed in particular by Arthur Eddington, and in 1930–31 his paper was translated into English and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.

St Edmund's College, Cambridge

The cosmologist Georges Lemaître, the Big Bang theorist, was a former graduate student 1923-24 at the college, supervised by Sir Arthur Eddington.


see also

Time's arrow

Arrow of time, a direction of time on a four-dimensional relativistic map of the world (as per Arthur Eddington)