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Einstein's Golden Moment

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

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From Newton to Einstein: The Mystery of Vulcan

This chapter explores the failed attempts to find the hypothetical planet Vulcan, proposed by astronomer Le Verrier, to explain the irregular orbit of Mercury and the implications it had on Newtonian physics.

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