The Isle of Athelney is best known for once being the fortress hiding place of King Alfred the Great, from where he went on to defeat the Danes at the Battle of Eddington in May 878.

On the recommendation of Arthur Stanley Eddington he went to St. Andrews University in Scotland.

From Germany, Saha went to Switzerland and then back to England, where he met Eddington at Cambridge.

This theory was confirmed in 1919 during a solar eclipse, when Arthur Eddington observed the light from stars passing close to the Sun was slightly bent, so that stars appeared slightly out of position.

AGN are both compact and persistently extremely luminous ; accretion can potentially give very efficient conversion of potential and kinetic energy to radiation, and a massive black hole has a high Eddington luminosity, so that it can provide the observed high persistent luminosity.

One is that ellipticals generally contain the most massive black holes, and so are capable of powering the most luminous active galaxies ( see Eddington luminosity ).

Astronomers who believed quasars were not at cosmological distances argued that the Eddington luminosity set limits on how distant the quasars could be since the energy output required to explain the apparent brightness of cosmologically-distant quasars was far too high to be explainable by nuclear fusion alone.

Since most massive stars have luminosities far below the Eddington luminosity, however, their winds are mostly driven by the less intense line absorption.

In addition, Eddington also felt that Gatwick's operation was far too fragmented, in terms of what he called the airport's " bewildering array " of operators and their equipment, which substantially increased costs.

Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

* The fine structure constant, a dimensionless physical constant, approximates 1 / 137, and the astronomer Arthur Eddington conjectured in 1929 that its reciprocal was in fact precisely the integer 137, which he claimed could be " obtained by pure deduction ".

The name honors the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington who, in 1938, was the first to propose a calculation of N < sub > Edd </ sub >, and to explain why this number could be important for cosmology and the foundations of physics.

Einstein was not alone in his attempts to unify electromagnetism and gravity ; a large number of mathematicians and physicists, including Hermann Weyl, Arthur Eddington, Theodor Kaluza, and R. Bach also attempted to develop approaches that could unify these interactions.

Eddington was of the opinion that this was the wrong way around because there were not enough early morning departures and late-evening arrivals that could have attracted a greater number of locally based business and leisure passengers requiring same-day-return facilities.

Several estimates imply that practically all the matter, when measured by mass, in the visible universe ( not including dark matter ) is in the protons of hydrogen atoms, and that roughly protons exist in the visible universe ( Eddington number ), and roughly atoms exist in the visible universe.

" Derek Fowlds posited to a concerned Eddington that these speeches were the reason why Hawthorne won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance four times in a row, while Eddington, though nominated, didn't win at all.

Eddington was also nominated on all four occasions.

It had initially slowed the process of adopting the tailfins in 1999 ; finally Chief Executive Rod Eddington decides that all aircraft will be painted with the new Union Flag livery, which had been one of the " ethnic " designs.

Original Wispa advertisements, all performed to camera in front of a black background, featured well-known actors such as Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Simon Cadell, and Ruth Madoc.

Although he was an actor all his life, Eddington was in his late forties before he became a household name thanks to The Good Life ( Good Neighbors in the USA ), first screened by the BBC in 1975.

Affine connection is the basis for parallel transport of vectors from one space-time point to another ; Eddington assumed the affine connection to be symmetric in its covariant indices, because it seemed plausible that the result of parallel-transporting one infinitesimal vector along another should produce the same result as transporting the second along the first.

Arthur Eddington agreed with Aristotle that the universe did not have a beginning in time, viz., that matter is eternal.

Although Bohr, Fowler, Pauli, and other physicists agreed with Chandrasekhar's analysis, at the time, owing to Eddington's status, they were unwilling to publicly support Chandrasekhar .< sup >, pp. 110 – 111 </ sup > Through the rest of his life, Eddington held to his position in his writings, including his work on his fundamental theory.

Rod Eddington, in his 2006 Transport ’ s role in sustaining the UK ’ s productivity and competitiveness report, recommended that the congestion problem should be tackled with a " sophisticated policy mix " of congestion-targeted road pricing and improving the capacity and performance of the transport network through infrastructure investment and better use of the existing network.

"</ ref > Eddington measured starlight deflections twice those predicted by Newtonian corpuscular theory, in accordance with the predictions of general relativity.

For example, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington claimed that the cosmological constant version of the vacuum field equation expressed the " epistemological " property that the universe is " self-gauging ", and Erwin Schrödinger's pure-affine theory using a simple variational principle produced the field equation with a cosmological term.

The mechanism is believed to be Eddington pulsations, like for the yellow Cepheids ( see above ), but with molecular hydrogen as the variable opacity layer of the star instead of helium.

Some other scientists, notably Willem de Sitter, while not endorsing Dingle's more extreme rhetoric, nevertheless agreed with Dingle that the cosmological models of Milne, Eddington, and others were overly speculative.

Nigel Hawthorne | Hawthorne and Paul Eddington | Eddington performing the sketch with Thatcher in January 1984.

Thatcher performed a short sketch with Eddington and Hawthorne on 20 January 1984 at a ceremony where the writers were presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse's NVLA, an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye.

Relations with British Airways improved with the arrival of Rod Eddington as BA CEO, though rivalry continued.

* Scenes for Einstein and Eddington were filmed with David Tennant playing Eddington and Jim Broadbent as a father, with Horsted Keynes disguised as Cambridge, this aired in November 2008.

To mark the end of production on the series Mr and Mrs Fisher ( Hannah Weinstein and her new husband John Fisher ) and Richard Greene threw a final wrap party at The High Pine Club on 10 December 1958, cast members Alexander Gauge, Archie Duncan, Patricia Driscoll with husband Duncan Lamont, Paul Eddington, both Sheriffs Alan Wheatley and John Arnatt attended.

The ingoing Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates are obtained by replacing t with v. The metric in these coordinates can be written

Likewise, the outgoing Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates are obtained by replacing t with u.

* Main sequence stars like our Sun are usually modeled by a polytrope with index, corresponding to the Eddington standard model of stellar structure.

The parish was formerly divided into four tithings: Hungerford or Town, Sanden Fee, Eddington with Hidden and Newtown and Charnham Street.

* In 2005, theatre organist Jelani Eddington performed and recorded with narrator George Woods the only existing theatre organ adaptation of Peter and the Wolf.

Serkis played Albert Einstein, following the development of his theory of relativity, while David Tennant played British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington.

Adam Eddington meets Vicky Austin the following summer in A Ring of Endless Light.

Some X-ray binaries and active galaxies are able to maintain luminosities close to the Eddington limit for very long times.