{"id":66,"date":"2008-11-25T19:31:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-11-25T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:31:35","slug":"einstein-and-eddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/einstein-and-eddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein and Eddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, quite by accident, I sat down to watch \"Einstein and Eddington\" on the BBC. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Einstein\">Einstein<\/a> has been an inspiration to me from an early age, and I'd known a lot about his life and work, and for many years a picture of him has adorned my room or office, though not at the moment as it happens. I suppose in compensation einstein is the hostname of my work computer at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I was also for this reason aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Stanley_Eddington\">Arthur Eddington<\/a>, and his famous experiment to verify that gravity bent starlight. I was also aware of his famous quote regarding being one of three men who understood <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_relativity\">General Relativity<\/a>. Nevertheless, it was fascinating to see the historical context of the interaction between these men, and a bit more of Eddington's life. I would recommend the programme highly, so if you're in the UK you have a few more days to catch it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00ft62c\/Einstein_and_Eddington\/\">iPlayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Great performances from Tennant and Serkis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, quite by accident, I sat down to watch \"Einstein and Eddington\" on the BBC. Einstein has been an inspiration to me from an early age, and I'd known a lot about his life and work, and for many years a picture of him has adorned my room or office, though not at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-stem","tag-12-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52I4w-14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}