Re: What's up with gravity wave detection?

From: Eric Flesch (eric_at_flesch.org)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:46:06 GMT

On 23 Aug 2004 17:36:06 -0700, greenfield_7@hotmail.com (Jim
Greenfield) wrote:
>As for the gravitational effect on the velocity of a photon, that is
>seen routinely when a star passes behind the sun- the path of the
>photon is changed by the sun's gravity (per Newton)

You're confusing topics; we were discussing "in-flight" photons
*exerting* gravity.

>> In that sense you are right. But I am reminded of one of Bohr's
>> refutations of Einstein's gedankenexperimenten where Einstein's
>> premise of increased mass was countered by the different rates of time
>> flow in a differential gravitational field. I suspect the same
>> applies here. In any event, this does not show that the "in-flight"
>> photon exerts gravitation.
>
>This would suggest, that for EMR, gravity is a one way street: the sun
>exerts an influence on passing photons, but you claim that they do not
>reciprocate---
>highly unlikely

Why, because you say so?

Eric

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