Re: Einstein's derivation of a doubling of Newtonian deflection.

On 02/17/2025 12:03 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:14:20 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:
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LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

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How relativity derives the amount of the deflection:
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1. It accepts the mass-velocity relationship, which prohibits anything
with any mass from reaching light speed, meaning the photon can have no
mass.
2. Therefore, according to relativity, gravity cannot affect photons.
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Relativity either has to abandon the mass-velocity relationship or
abandon the claim that photons are affected by gravity. Until then, it
remains self-contradictory nonsense, as always.

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and then they continue the con by making up werds like...gravity energy.
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wats next? spacetime??
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If you would avoid putting words in my mouth like "con," I would
appreciate it. Then, you might begin to engage in intelligent discourse.
If you are defending relativity, you should be able to explain the
contradiction. You have not defended it from this criticism. What do you
believe? Do photons have mass, or do they not? Can you make up your
mind?

Maybe it's simply part of halving- and doubling- spaces
and halving- and doubling- measures in continuum mechanics,
with regards to the continuous and discrete.
Sometimes you hear physicists say something like
"there's no infinity in physics" and it seems
among the most ludicrous and ignorant of opinions.