Re: Relativity claims the corona is too thin to refract enough to curve starlight.

Prok:  Robitaille questions the underlying fundamentals leading to these
interpretations of the empirical data. So your reply does not address
the fundamentals. He disagrees with the standard model and your reply
just insists on it while throwing in an ad hominem. This is typical of
defenses of relativity by relativists who assert their interpretations
of empirical results without addressing the real issues.
Robitaille argues the total pressure above the solar photosphere is much
more than standard model which says 1/10,000 or less than Earth's. They
claim to have measured the pressures but really only estimated them. He
cites Harold Zirin's book "The Solar Atmosphere" that says the Saha
equation underestimates the pressure 100 trillion times in the corona.
Robitaille bases his argument on his liquid sun. He says pressures above
photosphere probably 10's of 1,000's of atmospheres (Earths). He says
because sun is so much more massive than the earth its corona pressure
would be much more than Earths.
Relativists are cranks following a quack.