[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by freespace

It would appear not:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0685

Einstein Cross is a very good example of gravitational lensing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Cross

I am well aware of Einstein's Cross and wasn't suggesting lensing was bunk.

I was querying whether a final conclusion had been reached on whether Eddington's observations had sufficient reliability. It wouldn't be the first time that reviewing the margins of error in data found the conclusions unsound, but that later data proved the case.

On reading Kennefick's article I am reminded it was in Hawking's book I first saw the conjecture.