Explore stories from Atlantic Canada.
Now don’t get too pleased with yourself because so is every rock and rabbit on this planet. So is everything with mass.And a group of physicists from St. Francis Xavier University are heading to New Brunswick on Monday to see space-time getting bent.ATLANTIC SKIES: When the dragon devours the sun
“According to Einstein, light is bent by the gravity of the sun,” said Peter Marzlin, chair of the St. F.X. physics department. When the moon passes between the sun and Earth on Monday, there will be a relatively narrow 100-kilometre path where the sun is completely blocked out . It will cross New Brunswick and then touch Meat Cove in Cape Breton.
And that if light were a golf ball rolled across that blanket, it’s course would bend as it passed the bowling ball.To test it, British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington went to West Africa and Brazil to be in the path of a total solar eclipse that would travel across the world on May 29, 1919.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Cape Breton preparing for Monday's eclipse, totality in Meat CoveExplore stories from Atlantic Canada.
Read more »
Cape Breton preparing for Monday's eclipse, totality in Meat CoveExplore stories from Atlantic Canada.
Read more »
Eclipse to bend space and time for Meat Cove and the MiramichiExplore stories from Atlantic Canada.
Read more »
Eclipse to bend space and time for Meat Cove and the MiramichiExplore stories from Atlantic Canada.
Read more »
Towns on solar eclipse's path of totality brace for a crush of visitorsMunicipalities across Central and Eastern Canada have spent months preparing for an event that will last just three-and-a-half minutes: a total solar eclipse that will cast parts of the country into complete darkness
Read more »
Towns on solar eclipse's path of totality brace for a crush of visitorsTORONTO — Municipalities across Central and Eastern Canada have spent months preparing for an event that will last just three-and-a-half minutes: a total solar eclipse that will cast parts of the country into complete darkness.
Read more »