system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How was an eclipse used to show that Einstein's theories were correct?
gpt
The eclipse blocks out the light from the sun allowing us to see the stars around it that are normal invisible because the sun is too bright. This allowed us to show that the gravity of the sun was bending the light of the stars behind it and to the degree general relativity predicts.