One of the Most Important Days in the History of Science: 100 Years Ago Today

Today is the 100th anniversary of the experiment that proved Einstein's Theory of Relativity. 

There is a brief, and very readable, explanation here. Here is the most important paragraph (attention people in the field of climate):

Here we might also note, in the field of epistemology Einstein’s theory of general relativity as the “perfect theory” and Eddington’s verifiability test, have become the gold standard of what Karl Popper termed “conjectures and refutations” as the basis of advancement in our knowledge of the universe and its working. How do we know what is scientifically true, and Popper indicated “by saying that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability” (italics given).

The word "consensus" does not appear. 

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