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Re: PHOTONS AND CANNONBALLS IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

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From: Uncle Al
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 21:28
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Pentcho Valev wrote:
> 
> The speed of light and the speed of cannonballs vary with the
> gravitational potential in exactly the same way.
[snip rest of crap]

idiot

Photons vacuum free fall with twice the acceleration of cannonballs in
a given gravitational field, as predicted and as observed. 

idiot

http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909014
Amer. J. Phys. 71 770 (2003)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 121101 (2004)
Nature 425 374-376 (2003). 
<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2006-3/> 
Section 3.4.1, Figure 5
 falling light

idiot

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