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Article #5608Re: LEE SMOLIN AGAINST ISAAC NEWTON
From: Androcles
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48
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<srp2inc@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4695358e-db97-4485-94b4-06f417a451d4@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On 6 f�v, 02:34, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://philipball.blogspot.com/2007/09/arthur-eddington-was-innocent-... > "With the technology then available, measuring the bending of > starlight was very challenging. And contrary to popular belief, > Newtonian physics did not predict that light would remain undeflected > - Einstein himself pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should > cause some deviation too. So the matter was not that of an all-or- > nothing shift in stars' positions, but hinged on the exact numbers." | Right. | Classical Newtonian mechanics predicts that light will bend with | twice the angle observed. How?
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