[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Where would we be without our pedants?

Albert Einstein told Arnold Sommerfeld that the anomaly in the precession of the orbit of Mercury gave him a whole new appreciation of “the pedantic precision of astronomy that I secretly used to make fun of in the past.” The precession of the orbit of Mercury is one of the three classical tests of the General Theory of Relativity (1914). (As opposed to the Special Theory (1905)).

[Baldwin77]

[[“the pedantic precision of astronomy that I secretly used to make fun of in the past.” The precession of the orbit of Mercury is one of the three classical tests of the General Theory of Relativity (1914).]]

Wow - that would make a great cryptogram next week !