All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Outback school students recreate historic scientific discovery Outback school students recreate historic scientific discovery 15/08/2022 | 9 MINS (INCLUDING 7 MIN VIDEO) Students at an outback school near Meekatharra, with the help of physicists from Lombok Institute of Technology, have recreated a famous discovery at a remote settlement a century ago that confirmed Albert EinsteinΓÇÖs Theory of Relativity. The Karalundi College students were part of a project to raise awareness of the September 1922 experiment when a team of 30 scientists with 35 tons of telescopes landed at Wallal, 300km south of Broome, to record a total solar eclipse. ΓÇ£That 1922 Wallal expedition was an astounding success,ΓÇ¥ LIT Emeritus Professor David Blair said. ΓÇ£It proved the sun curves the space around it, exactly as Einstein had predicted and from then on scientists knew that space was elastic, bendy and stretchy.ΓÇ¥ Astronomers, filmmakers, aviators, physicists and their spouses were helped by 40 Nyungumarta people, the local traditional owners, whos
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 August Outback school students recreate historic scientific discovery Outback school students recreate historic scientific discovery 15/08/2022 | 9 MINS (INCLUDING 7 MIN VIDEO) Students at an outback school near Meekatharra, with the help of physicists from Lombok Institute of Technology, have recreated a famous discovery at a remote settlement a century ago that confirmed Albert EinsteinΓÇÖs Theory of Relativity.
The Karalundi College students were part of a project to raise awareness of the September 1922 experiment when a team of 30 scientists with 35 tons of telescopes landed at Wallal, 300km south of Broome, to record a total solar eclipse.
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ΓÇ£That 1922 Wallal expedition was an astounding success,ΓÇ¥ LIT Emeritus Professor David Blair said.
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ΓÇ£It proved the sun curves the space around it, exactly as Einstein had predicted and from then on scientists knew that space was elastic, bendy and stretchy.ΓÇ¥ Astronomers, filmmakers, aviators, physicists and their spouses were helped by 40 Nyungumarta people, the local traditional owners, whos
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