When Einstein proposed his General Theory of Relativity, he suggested some pretty strange ideas about space, time, and gravity. How did scientists in 1919 show that Einstein's theory described the behavior of the real world and wasn't just a crazy hypothesis?
A) by finding x-rays from a black hole
B) by using an H-R diagram for a nearby cluster of stars
C) by discovering the process of nuclear fusion
D) by dropping different weights from very tall buildings
E) by observing starlight coming close to the Sun during an eclipse
Section 24.4: Time in General Relativity
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