Dwapara Yuga Scientist Arthur Eddington

Eddington is famous as the father of modern Astrophysics and popularizer of the works of Einstein to the English speaking public.

Eddington was clear in his writings on the harmony between scientific investigation and religious mysticism, itself a Dwapara Yuga theme.

It was his solar eclipse expedition in 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of Einstein's theories, making front page news and Einstein an international celebrity.

The less well known story of Eddington's expedition is that there had been little enthusiasm for any such work from 1914 onwards because of WWI and the idea that all international cooperation should end and that, as a German, Einstein's theories were not worthy of attention.

Eddington thus became a footnote to the much more widely known story of the Manhattan Project and the dawning of the Nuclear Age in 1945. The atomic bomb was made not by native born Americans but by a team 75% of whom had been born elsewhere. Had such a racist attitude persisted the Allies would never have won the war, leaving National Socialists and Communist Socialists to divide the Earth.

In 1918 the authorities in Britain had gone so far as to want to imprison Eddington for his Pacifist Quaker beliefs and support for international cooperation, denying his legal rights to being an objector of conscience. The 1919 expedition was actually part of a deal to avoid imprisonment.

Eddington first studied Physics at Manchester University, England. Manchester (at the time nicknamed Cottonopolis as the world's first industrialized city)'s University was founded by a cotton merchant who had grown rich through international trade, emphasizing technology and not religion in its outlook. It is the home of Jodrell Bank historically one of the most important Astrophysics Labs in the world. The much older Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities for centuries were factories for priests and later vicars - even the great Newton was almost tripped up by the need to take Holy Orders. It was at Manchester that the Atom was cracked in the early 1900s and the first stored program computer developed in the 1940s.

Thus Eddington in both exploring finer forces, sharing knowledge without artificial barriers and developing the study of astrophysics, a cornerstone of past higher ages, was a scientist for Dwapara Yuga.