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Everything to know about the April 8 eclipse in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #eclipse #atlanticcanadaNow don’t get too pleased with yourself because so is every rock and rabbit on this planet. So is everything with mass.And a group of physicists from St. Francis Xavier University are heading to New Brunswick on Monday to see space-time getting bent.No, they’re not going to Moncton's Champlain Place Mall. They’re going to the Miramichi to be in the path of totality of the solar eclipse.
“The effect was first observed over a century ago; for our students this would be a lifetime experience.”When the moon passes between the sun and Earth on Monday, there will be a relatively narrow 100-kilometre path where the sun is completely blocked out . It will cross New Brunswick and then touch Meat Cove in Cape Breton.
And that if light were a golf ball rolled across that blanket, it’s course would bend as it passed the bowling ball.To test it, British astronomers Frank Watson Dyson and Arthur Stanley Eddington went to West Africa and Brazil to be in the path of a total solar eclipse that would travel across the world on May 29, 1919.
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