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To: John Locke

And what observations have been made in the 100 years since 1919?


22 posted on 01/30/2019 12:49:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
Very few, as it happens. The only other (more detailed) experiment with the Sun was in 1922. Scientists still use gravitational bending, but to estimate the mass of a remote body by measuring the bending of light, which of course is not a test of Einstein at all, merely putting the numbers into the formula.

Incidentally, there is a much simpler explanation of the phenomenon: that light travels more slowly in a gravitational field, as was proposed by Poincare in the 19c. The bending then follows directly from the Least Time theorem of Heron of Alexandria; it's an exercise in the Calculus of Variations a schoolboy can do.

23 posted on 01/31/2019 12:44:31 AM PST by John Locke
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