Re: Feynman did it before Hawking

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:01:15 +0000 (UTC)

In article <1110354620.497383.69900@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
newedana <simplesong1004@hanmail.net> wrote:
>Gravity has nothing to do with lights, the kinds of electromagnetic
>waves. So it is stupid to believe that gravity can attract the light,
>because these two physical entities are entirely different in
>character. We can generate any kind of electromagnetic waves but we
>cannot do the same job to generate the gravity. If man can create a
>mass from energy then the gravitation can be generated, but it is also
>foolish to believe that it is possible.
>

And yet, gravity attracts light. Many measurements have been done of
light bending as it passes the Sun, gravitational lensing in the universe,
and the related phenomenon of gravitational redshifting.

How does that impact your argument? 

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"No one need be surprised that the subject of contagion was not clear to 
our ancestors."-- Heironymus Fracastorius, 1546

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