Lindsay Graham
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7,737 appearances
56 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But before other scientists can accept the theory as true, it will need to be proven.
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It's dawn on august thirtieth, nineteen twenty two, on an isolated stretch of beach on the west coast of Australia, seven years after Albert Einstein came up with his theory of general relativity.
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Foamy waves swirl and hiss around William Campbell's knees as he wades toward shore, and the arms of the American astronomer is a fragile wooden box.
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He clutches it close to his chest, carefully holding it high above the surface.
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on the surface of the Choppy Ocean.
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William's eyes gleam as he scans the sandy coast, his gaze settling upon a small retinue of men waiting for his arrival.
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Swiveling around he checks on his team members who follow behind in a rubber lifeboat with their own heavy boxes.
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Soon enough they all trudge toward shore.
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William and his team are one of the international groups who have traveled to Walal, a secluded settlement on Australia's western coast, to test Einstein's theory of general relativity by observing stars during another solar eclipse.
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If Einstein's theory holds true, the Sun's gravitational field will bend any starlight that passes through it, creating a disparity between the Sun's daytime and nighttime positions.
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But it's too hard to see stars when there's daylight, so the only chance to accurately chart their daytime positions is during a total solar eclipse.
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Several expeditions have already attempted to chart stars during eclipses, but technical difficulties or poor weather conditions have foiled their attempts.
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In nineteen nineteen, Arthur Eddington's expedition seemed successful, but scientists have been unwilling to treat it as proper evidence due to the low number of stars that he measured.
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Now William and his team hope they can satisfy Arthur's critics and prove one of the most groundbreaking scientific theories ever proposed.
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A total eclipse is scheduled for the last week of September, and it's predicted that Walal, a largely uninhabited and arid land, is the most optically advantageous location to conduct the experiment.
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But there are some drawbacks.
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Most notably, the region is inaccessible, and its only existing infrastructure is an old telegraph station.
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Concerns about transporting equipment made many in the scientific community plainly dismiss the idea of coming here.
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But Alexander Ross, a math and physics professor at a leading Australian university, resolved to show the international community that Walal was a viable venue.
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After finding a source of fresh water in the settlement and noticing that it was possible to bring equipment to Walal by boat, Alexander wrote impassioned letters to leading astronomers across the world, urging them to conduct the experiment in Australia.
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