Einstein and Eddington Page #5

I hope we Quakers can help.

With you in Africa...

...we will be a long way apart.

Winnie.

Winnie!

Say goodbye to me.

I'm afraid for you.

- What are you talking about?

- I'm...

I'm worried you're... losing something

you used to be sure of.

Your faith.

You must listen for God.

Do you hear me?

What time is it?

It's noon. Two hours to go.

The rain has stopped.

The cloud?

It's full cloud cover.

Everything's ready.

It's all down to whether the cloud lifts,

and if God is with us.

It's time.

We'll get into position.

We'll do what we've come here to do.

Eddington! Quick, look!

Five minutes to go.

Totality. We have five minutes

to take photographs.

- The rain stopped.

- Yes, it did.

And the cloud cleared.

Yes, it did.

Six of the plates are poor quality.

Two are good.

We have two photographs to compare

with the original plate back in England.

Will it be Einstein or Newton?

It's time to go home.

Our divorce has taken longer than the war.

Your work has made you ill.

I hope what you've been doing

is worth all this sacrifice.

We have to do the best

that we are capable of.

That is our sacred

human responsibility.

Anything less is unforgivable.

I had to do the work.

My theory is too beautiful to be wrong.

Somebody will prove it.

Why are you here?

I... have a promise to keep.

Space... is shaped.

Space is full of...

...curves...

...and dents...

...and wonderful shapes.

Are you leaving again?

Are you going back to Berlin?

He's not staying.

This is it.

The comparison plate is in position.

No. We should do this in public.

We should share this

with anyone who wants to witness it.

Right or wrong,

this moment is for all of science.

If the stars on this photographic plate

of the eclipse

overlap with the comparison plate,

Einstein is wrong

and Newton's theory holds.

If there is a gap

between the two images,

then the sun's gravitational field

has shifted the stars' position

and we have a new theory of gravity.

- A gap.

- Einstein.

I call upon Arthur Eddington.

None of us can know what the world is

in the way that we used to know it.

Einstein says...

Sorry.

Einstein says that time

is not the same for all of us...

...but different for each one of us.

It's very hard to conceive of

such separate views...

...of such relative ways of seeing.

Today is the first day of a new world

that is much harder to live in,

less certain,

more lonely.

But which has, at its heart...

...human endeavour.

One man has shown us how.

Look at what one man can do.

In this man's work,

in the beautiful complexity

of the new universe he has shown us,

I for one have no doubt.

I can hear God thinking.

Is that him?

Professor Einstein?

Who... are all those men outside?

Reporters.

Word has reached us from London

of your anointing.

You're famous.

You're here.

Will you have me?

On one condition.

You can't go outside and meet

all those people looking like that.

They'll think you are a lunatic.

What kind of genius looks like you do?

- No!

- Yes! Yes.

- No!

- Yes.

- Einstein.

- Professor Einstein!

Hello. Yes.

Hello.

Oh, yes. Yes.

Eddington.

Einstein.

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