Working backward from the theory to the observation

The recent death of Tom Stoppard , who cowrote the screenplay for &ldquo; Shakespeare in Love ,&rdquo; reminded me of Dennis Overby &rsquo;s Einstein in Love (2000). It&rsquo;s a biography of Einstein during the two decades of his most groundbreaking work. In it, I found out that Eddington fudged the results of the famous experiment that was reported to have confirmed general relativity . Three…