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Article #5632Re: LEE SMOLIN AGAINST ISAAC NEWTON
From: Eric Gisse
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:38
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:38
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On Feb 6, 6:33 am, srp2...@gmail.com wrote: > On 6 fÊv, 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. > > Relativistic Newtonian mechanics however predicts the correct > angle since it is now understood that only half a photon's energy > is sensitive to transverse interaction. Uhhhhh....no. General relativity [is NOT "relativistic Newtonian mechanics] makes the correct prediction without assuming _anything_ abut the photon other than it traveling along a null path. [...]
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X-Google-Thread: 10f545,89f2be10e566fb3e X-Google-Thread: 10b271,89f2be10e566fb3e X-Google-Thread: fa4c1,89f2be10e566fb3e X-Google-Thread: 1139f8,89f2be10e566fb3e X-Google-Thread: f55d3,89f2be10e566fb3e X-Google-Attributes: gid10f545,gid10b271,gidfa4c1,gid1139f8,gidf55d3,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Eric Gisse <jowr.pi@gmail.com> Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, fr.sci.physique, fr.sci.maths, fr.sci.philo Subject: Re: LEE SMOLIN AGAINST ISAAC NEWTON Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:38:54 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <6fbc34d0-9c6f-427d-8bb8-ad4f7aae5086@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <e3cb16d6-c73b-4e59-9f50-5cda6da5d475@m62g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <4695358e-db97-4485-94b4-06f417a451d4@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.229.51.210 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202337534 23784 127.0.0.1 (6 Feb 2008 22:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.229.51.210; posting-account=rIfu6QoAAAD5nXG3h9QEE0J3dZn1U45R User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)