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Ugh beware instagram science. Thought I had this mixed up but posted it anyway.
To clarify, mercury’s precession can be viewed during normal times.
But the bending of light was much easier to see during a solar eclipse because it blocked all the other light from the sun… Einstein predicted (secondarily to mercury’s precession) that light would bend if traveling past a planet with a lot of gravity (space curvature around it), since spacetime is the “road” light travels on.
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