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Jos Boersema (josX): Nonsense! Newton was out of line! (10-Sep-2002) |
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>>>>>> One has to be careful in making this statement. I've been reading >>>>>> the introduction of a book entitled _Gravitational Lensing_, and >>>>>> people did consider light deflection by gravity prior to 1919. >>>>>> Indeed Newton wrote a bit about it. The difficulty was whether the >>>>>> magnitude of the effect was observable. Observing light deflection >>>>>> prior to 1915 would not have been surprising in the context of >>>>>> Newtonian gravity. What was surprising (and what helped turn >>>>>> Einstein into a household name) was that the magnitude of the >>>>>> effect was not in accord with Newtonian gravity but was in accord >>>>>> with Einsteinian gravity. I'd like to note the total nonsense of this. If it wasn't yet observed, then the magnitude of the effect is unknown. If Newton made a prediction about it without looking, then he was out of line. |
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