To: koan who wrote (43447 ) 6/29/2007 5:54:46 AM From: AuBug Respond to I'm not sure they didn't believe him but nobody could test and verify his theories for some time. I knew Samuel Goudsmit who attended school with Einstein, if you could call it that, Einstein never wore socks, rarely bathed, showed up randomly, came late and left early. Sam and George Uhlenbeck proposed the spin of the electron as the fourth quantum number in 1925. They did not get the Nobel for it but those that proposed the first 3 all got Nobels. It was just a matter of so many things happening and needing to attribute other topics. Sam gave the funniest seminar based on the letters between european physicists during the early 20th century. He was also an amateur Egyptologist and gave a very funny public seminar about it. The most inspiring evening I ever spent was when Sam invited Edward Teller to come give us a seminar on his modelling of the implosion of a hydrogen bomb and afterwards we all went out to dinner and I had the good luck to sit next to Teller and across from Goudsmit and an old American physicist Bill Scott. They told amazing stories about the debates their colleagues had during the golden age of physics in the early 20th century and tried to resolve a few with what had been learned since.Experimental verification 1919 , shortly after the theory was published. Newton's law of gravity predicts that gravity will not deflect light, which is massless; however, the principle of equivalence, on which general relativity is founded, predicts that gravity will bend light rays. The nearest mass large enough to have a noticeable effect on light is the Sun. The apparent position of a star almost blocked by the Sun should be measurably shifted as the light from the star is bent by the Sun's gravity. As described above, observations made during the total eclipse of 1919 found the predicted shift.science.jrank.org osulibrary.oregonstate.edu aip.org aip.org
