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Einsteinians continue hinting at the end of Einsteiniana but very
carefully:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/26-albert-einstein-rock-star
DISCOVER: "It is possible to fix almost to the day the moment when
Einstein became an icon. On November 6, 1919, he was still a private
person. But that night, the Royal Society held a special meeting in
London to announce the results of observations that seemed to confirm
Einstein's theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. As The
Times of London reported in a headline the next day, the society
concluded that the work amounted to a "Revolution in Science--New
Theory of the Universe--Newton's Ideas Overthrown." Three days later,
The New York Times picked the story up, blaring that there were
"Lights All Askew in the Heavens...[the] stars [were] not where they
seemed or were calculated to be." From there the word spread around
the globe until, by the turn of the year, Albert Einstein had crossed
the point of no return: He was and has remained public property. But
that raises questions: Why him, why then, why still? Partly it was
just that Einstein happened to photograph well."

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-relativity
DISCOVER: "Despite that, the early version of general relativity had a
major error, a miscalculation of the amount a light beam would bend
due to gravity. Fortunately, plans to test the theory during a solar
eclipse in 1914 were scuttled by World War I. Had the experiment been
conducted then, the error would have been exposed and Einstein would
have been proved wrong. The eclipse experiment finally happened in
1919 (you're looking at it on this very page). Eminent British
physicist Arthur Eddington declared general relativity
a success, catapulting Einstein into fame and onto coffee mugs. In
retrospect, it seems that Eddington fudged the results, throwing out
photos that showed the "wrong" outcome. No wonder nobody noticed: At
the time of Einstein's death in 1955, scientists still had almost no
evidence of general relativity in action."

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