The Roaring 20s Are Back
Will it lead to a world war again?
6 min readMar 20, 2021
On May 29, 1919, Arthur Eddington tried, for the third time, to confirm Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. He sent an expedition to the African island of Principe and went himself to the Brazilian town of Sobral to observe a solar eclipse. If Einstein was right, the eclipse would show a small displacement of light rays exactly as predicted by his equations…
