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#162: Why Science? (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Importance of Relativity

The idea was if Einstein is correct about relativity, and that doesn't mean perfectly correct, but it means more correct than the model he proposes to replace. The position that we know for the stars that are right behind the position of the sun will be altered by the sun's presence. That's true with or without the eclipse, but you can't see it because the sun is so bright. You need the eclipse to darken the sun in order for you to see the stars move as a result of the gravitational lensing of the light bending around the sun. So all the scientists knew that this was a prediction of the model. They can't very well create an eclipse. But anyway,

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