At a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, Arthur Stanley Eddington presents the results of measuring the curvature of starlight (1.7 arc seconds) during a total solar eclipse on an island off the coast of Nigeria. He thus provides the first experimental confirmation of General Relativity. When a journalist asks Albert Einstein what he feels now, he replies that the confirmation wasn’t for him, but for everyone else; he was already convinced. The whole world trusts the experimental physicist, but the experimental physicist trusts the theoretical physicist.
