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The Royal Society performed the first revolution in 1919 but:

http://philipball.blogspot.com/2007/09/arthur-eddington-was-innocent-this-is.html
"With the technology then available, measuring the bending of
starlight was very challenging. And contrary to popular belief,
Newtonian physics did not predict that light would remain undeflected
- Einstein himself pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should
cause some deviation too. So the matter was not that of an all-or-
nothing shift in stars' positions, but hinged on the exact numbers."

The Royal Society should have considered Einstein's 1911 equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2): it is consistent with the gravitational redshift factor
1+V/c^2 confirmed experimentally and therefore "Newtonian gravity"
correctly predicts the variation of the speed of light in a
gravitational field. On the other hand, Einstein's "theory" turned out
to be an incomparable money-spinner so Einstein's 1911 equation
c'=c(1+V/c^2) was swept under the rug.

Twelve years ago (the Royal Society is still just shocking the public
and making money):

http://www.totse.com/en/technology/space_astronomy_nasa/ftltravl.html
"ASTRONOMERS PREDICT FASTER THAN LIGHT SPACE TRAVEL. It is boldly
going where no reputable scientific body has gone before.
Contradicting Einstein, the normally conservative Royal Astronomical
Society is about to publish a report predicting that mankind will be
able to travel faster than the speed of light. The breakthrough means
that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages
powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of
science fiction writers...Crawford argues that modern physics may
allow two possible ways around Einstein's theory....The theories will
boost growing interest among scientists in the possibility of
travelling faster than light. The IPS, whose members include several
NASA engineers, starts its first conference shortly in Halifax, Nova
Scotia."

Six years ago (concern is growing in the Royal Society, a second
revolution may be just around the corner):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
"A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned that the laws
thought to govern the universe, including Albert Einstein's theory of
relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which includes Professor
Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, say such
laws may only work for our universe but not in others that are now
also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION IS
EINSTEIN'S BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
cosmologists."

Recent hints at a second revolution:

http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=3880
Royal Society: "Newton beats Einstein in polls of scientists and the
public."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2005/01/26/ecrein26.xml&sSheet=/connected/2005/01/26/ixconnrite.html
Martin Rees: "Although there's something rather noble about the way he
persevered in his attempts to reach far beyond his grasp, in some
respects the Einstein cult sends the wrong signal. It unduly exalts
"armchair theory", which by itself would achieve little."

And yet the Royal Society's second revolution remains unfinished. It
really is just around the corner: "AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION IS
EINSTEIN'S BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum."

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