Re: Bending of light not well authenticated

Koobee Wublee wrote:
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> "John C. Polasek" <jpolasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > But your argument applies directly to the Shapiro effect (1964) where
> > Shapiro predicted that light passing near the Sun owuld take longer
> > than away. (Bouncing radar off Mars 200 usec). But light slowing down
> > has never been featured in any part of early relativity from 1916 to
> > 1964 that I know of.
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> Shapiro's claim and the concept of GR are not mutually supportive. GR must
> demand the speed of light to be constant every where. The claim that any
> observer's speed of light is the same while the observed can have different
> values of the speed of light in vacuum has problems under the concept of GR.

You obviously don't know much about GR. The local coordinate speed of
light in GR is dependent on the coordinate system. The local speed
of light in a local inertial frame is always c.

You don't understand the distinction.

John Anderson
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