Re: The Apollo moon landings

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

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:01:52 +0000, David Canzi wrote:
 

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?

 
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.
 
WOOF woof-woof woof woof-woof woof
 
Bertietaylor

 
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.

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.

So wrong again crackpot.


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