The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
Will, Clifford M
Living Reviews in Relativity 17, no. 1 (2014): 1-117.
https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2014-4
“When general relativity was born 100 years ago, experimental confirmation was almost a side issue. Admittedly, Einstein did calculate observable effects of general relativity, such as the perihelion advance of Mercury, which he knew to be an unsolved problem, and the deflection of light, which was subsequently verified. But compared to the inner consistency and elegance of the theory, he regarded such empirical questions as almost secondary. He famously stated that if the measurements of light deflection disagreed with the theory he would “feel sorry for the dear Lord, for the theory is correct!”.”
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