Re: Relativity Derives Zero Deflection of Light By Gravity.

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.
 So you must be ignorant of the fact that photons are observed
to be deflected by gravity exactly as predicted by GR.
 Because you would not claim that "photons cannot be affected
by gravity" if you knew that they are.
 Or would you? :-D
 Paul

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?
R.H.