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Article #6687Re: gravitational bending of light, surprising?
From: Sue...
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:03
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On May 10, 3:47 pm, John J <n...@droffats.ten> wrote: > NoEinstein wrote: > > On May 9, 2:47 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Dear P. V.: Since "photons" are just clusters of IOTAs (the smallest > > energy units of the ether), and since 'energy' (alone) has no mass, > > then gravity can never bend light! The following link explains why. > > — NoEinstein — > > > Light rays don’t travel on ballistic curves. > >http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/browse_thread/thread/c3d7a... > > In essence then, are you are claiming that light travels in an > independent (possibly absolute) frame? That is an interesting assertion > and I'd be interested in how it might relate to the claim that light (in > a vacuum) always travels at the same speed regardless of the speed of > the originating source. It is no mere assertion. About 100 years of electromagnetism supports it. What is the Interstellar Medium? http://espg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html Propagation in a dielectric medium http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node98.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_double_star_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_space Sue...
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