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:Like it or not, Einstein is a household name.  If it weren't, would you be fighting so hard against him?  And he got that way in 1919 because of the eclipse.  I happen to disagree that that's his signature achievement.  But it's the achievement that, for better or worse, got the headlines and made him a superstar.

:Like it or not, Einstein is a household name.  If it weren't, would you be fighting so hard against him?  And he got that way in 1919 because of the eclipse.  I happen to disagree that that's his signature achievement.  But it's the achievement that, for better or worse, got the headlines and made him a superstar.

:If the eclipse observations had been wrong, that fame would have been taken away.  But Eddington's result was right while his methods were wrong.<ref>''Einstein's Luck'', John Waller, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860719-9</ref>  Eddington lucked out and got away with it, and the flaws in his analysis weren't discovered until decades later with the advent of more precise methods for analyzing experiments.

:If the eclipse observations had been wrong, that fame would have been taken away.  But Eddington's result was right while his methods were wrong.<ref>''Einstein's Luck'', John Waller, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860719-9</ref>  Eddington lucked out and got away with it, and the flaws in his analysis weren't discovered until decades later with the advent of more rigorous methods for analyzing experiments.  By then, extremely precise and properly analyzed data had gotten the same result&mdash;the angle of deflection was 1.75 arcseconds.

:It is far better to say that people believed the eclipse news (else how could we explain how Einstein became a household word?) but Eddington's methods were wrong (This is exactly what the article says!) than to censor that information and leave people in the dark about Einstein's fame.

:It is far better to say that people believed the eclipse news (else how could we explain how Einstein became a household word?) but Eddington's methods were wrong (And this is exactly what our article says!) than to censor that information and leave people in the dark about Einstein's fame.

 

:Wrong things get said all the time.  In the extremely early years of computers, some famous person (can't be bothered to look it up, but you've probably read it too) said that the whole world would have a need for about 5 computers.  And don't forget that the US Patent Office was once closed down because nothing more would be invented.

:[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 19:05, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

:[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 19:05, 3 September 2018 (EDT)