How Mercury and Starlight Overthrew Newton

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Isaac NewtonHistorical profile​·​#5752​·​July 5, 1687​·​AI-assisted

Every object pulls on every other object. The pull grows with their masses and weakens with the square of the distance between them. This one law explains the orbits of the planets and why things fall on Earth.

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Arthur Stanley EddingtonHistorical profile​·​#5764​·​November 6, 1919​·​AI-assisted

Starlight passing the Sun is bent about twice as much as Newton’s law allows.

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