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The essential predictions of general relativity are:
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Will [211], pp. 772–773.
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Will [212], pp. 50–54.
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Will [211], pp. 771–772.
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Yam [217], pp. 53–55.
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I have added to the diagram the case of a body in orbit, which does not appear in Newton’s original sketch. The diagram and the experiment, along with some historiographical challenges, are discussed in considerable detail in Topper [198], Chap. 10.
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Will [212], p. 271.
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See Calder [23], p. 158, who introduced me to the idea of interpreting the CERN experiment in this way.
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Topper, D.R. (2013). Is the Theory True Today?. In: How Einstein Created Relativity out of Physics and Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 394. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4782-5_19
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