LEE SMOLIN AGAINST ISAAC NEWTON

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:34

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http://philipball.blogspot.com/2007/09/arthur-eddington-was-innocent-this-is.html
"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."

However Budding Young Einsteins are taught in a different way:

http://pirsa.org/speaker/Lee_Smolin
Lee Smolin - ISSYP Keynote Session
Speaker(s): Lee Smolin
Abstract:
Date: 01/08/2007 - 1:00 pm

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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