who's going to be that technician keeping the machines running in cottingham got it into his head thebigger the deflection the better so he asks if we get double the einstein to function that would be better to which dyson replies than eddington will go mad and you'll have to go home alone. even as eddington and dyson are looking about the logistical logistical aspects of the expedition they are working with reporters in london about the expeditions and their significance so when they came back months later with the results there would be a public eager and ready to hear about this titanic battle between a einstein and -- and that's what it's framed that way to make at this intellectual battle. what they had everything ready eddington hops on won when the first passenger ships headed south and denotes how strange it is to be outside the rationing that have been normal in the uk by this point with full bowls of sugar and large portions of me. he arrives on april 26. he had never been to principe. this is a long time before travel web sites. prÍncipe is a speck of an island in the ocean

he returned to cottingham, cottingham, you won't have to go home alone. this was just a matter of persuading himself, though. he wanted to know the answer. persuading the world would take more work. so once back in britain. eddington faced literal months of tedious measurement and further calculation. and the results from principe were calculated to be 1.71 arc seconds, comfortably close to einstein's prediction of 1.75. and once the results were in hand, eddington and dyson did some test runs of presents the data with private and friendly audiences to see how it would go over. and in fact these went well. and dyson schedules a joint meeting of the royal society and the royal astronomical society to present the results publicly. eddington sends word of the results to their mutual friends in the netherlands. he still can't communicate directly with einstein. and the dutch friends telegraph einstein with the news. and einstein is delighted. einstein shows this telegram with the results to anyone who walks into his apartment for the next couple of months, ev