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Article #5611Re: LEE SMOLIN AGAINST ISAAC NEWTON
From: Androcles
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:15
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:15
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<srp2inc@gmail.com> wrote in message news:9e602017-6b46-4986-8dc3-352c0109f267@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On 6 f�v, 11:48, "Androcles" <Headmas...@Hogwarts.physics> wrote: > <srp2...@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? | Lapsus. Its the reverse. | I meant to write half the angle observed. and for corrected | relativistic | Newtonian, the angle is twice that of classical Newtonian, as is | observed. Ok, but my real question is how does classical Newtonian mechanics prophesy that light will bend at all? It does, I'm wondering if you, Eddington or Einstein knows how.
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