Re: The Apollo moon landings

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 0:23:19 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

In sci.physics Bertitaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:01:52 +0000, David Canzi wrote:
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On 6/14/25 01:45, Bertitaylor wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:42:45 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
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David Canzi <dmcanzi@uwaterloo.ca> wrote or quoted:

Did Einstein make relativity famous, or did relativity make
Einstein famous?

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  Einstein really hit the big time after that 1919 solar eclipse,

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Biggest science hoax ever that, using the refraction of the starlight
from the Sun's atmosphere to "prove" the extraordinary bullshit of
General Relativity.

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Has anybody calculated how much refraction by the Sun's atmosphere
would bend a ray of star light, and was the result of that calculation
close to the observed bending?

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They totally neglected the impact of lensing from the Sun's outer
atmosphere which obviously had a refractive index greater than unity.
When you neglect that fact you can come to absurdly wrong conclusions
like GR getting validated.
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WOOF woof-woof woof woof-woof woof
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Bertietaylor

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The solar corona's refractive index is less than 1 because it's a
plasma, and electromagnetic waves travel faster through plasma than
through a vacuum due to their interaction with free electrons.
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This means any lensing due to the refractive index of the Sun's
atmosphere would be going in the opposite direction than the gravity
effects.
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So wrong again crackpot.

Not so, fool.
From net search:
Light travelling through a plasma can move at speeds both slower and
faster than the speed of light. Researchers from Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory in California and the University of Rochester in New
York managed to fine-tune the speed of light waves within plasma to
anywhere from around one-tenth of light's usual vacuum speed to more
than 30 percent faster.
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Light travels upto .1c in plasma upto 1.3c from above.
Basically that means that plasma retards light as it has a high
refractive index.
If it travels at greater than c, all that shows is light speed variance.
Light from electrons moving at .3c will be having a speed of 1.3c  This
assuming that the scientists were not the usual Einstein-crazed
bunglers.
On the whole plasma has greater than 1 refractive index, so the lensing
effect from the Sun's coroan and outside will certainly be there!
woof woof woof woof woof woof - really we heavenhounds have our hands
full trying to educate silly apes.
Bertietaylor
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