alleryWhich 1919 observation supported General Relativity over Newtonian gravitation?
AEddington's solar eclipse
BGalileo's falling bodies
CPasteur's flask tests
DFranklin's kite flight
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Eddington's solar eclipse
1. General Relativity predicted that light bends in a gravitational field.
2. Arthur Eddington's observations during a 1919 solar eclipse supported this.
3. The other experiments concern different ideas.
_Source: Wikipedia, Scientific method, Predictions from the hypothesis_
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