Re: Relativity Derives Zero Deflection of Light By Gravity.

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:44:03 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

Le 20/02/2025 à 22:31, "Paul B. Andersen" a écrit :

So you prefer to believe that your derivation that
photons are not affected by gravity is correct,
and that GR's predictions thus are proven wrong.
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So you must be ignorant of the fact that photons are observed
to be deflected by gravity exactly as predicted by GR.
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Because you would not claim that "photons cannot be affected
by gravity" if you knew that they are.
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Or would you? :-D
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Paul

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What is the evidence that photons are deflected by the presence of
matter
in space?
If the space surrounding bodies has the ability to deflect the
trajectory
of bodies, then space is not pure nothingness.
But how can absolute vacuum manage to deflect bodies and photons with
its
little hooked fingers?
What evidence do we have of this?
The deflection of the rays of stars at the solar periphery?
This is not evidence, but a grotesque claim. The sun ejects matter much
further than one to two solar radii, and therefore the sun is surrounded
by particles and gases ejected over millions of kilometers (which slowly
fall back to its surface).
Can't these gases and particles, over millions of kilometers, have
refracting capacities?
The same goes for galaxies, probably surrounded by enormous masses of
gas
over thousands of light years. So, couldn't this cause diffraction
rings?
As for black holes, which we can't see, who can prove their existence?
Can't a huge mass of matter, at the center of a galaxy, have all the
gravitational characteristics of a black hole without being a black
hole?
Haven't we made physics more metaphysical than physical?
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R.H.

Light remains a mystery. The problem with the refraction solution is
that light would be a wave without a medium, or we haven't found that
medium yet in laboratory vacuums, and it would be different from
Michelson's concept.