Re: Bending of light not well authenticated


"Koobee Wublee" <kublai@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Tmfie.25$ep.21@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "Randy M. Dumse" <rmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> The authors seem to try to make it as confusing as possible.
> >
> > I'd say instead, the authors try to match the level of understanding of
> > their intended audience, and also the level the dilligent student should
> > have attained upon reaching that point in the book.
>
> A better explanation is that the authors have already established that
> Einstein's calculation must be correct. Some of them must have discovered
> something wrong. So, they try to make GR as complex and confusing as
> possible. In the field of science, nothing works better at confusing anyone
> by using fancy vocabulary. For example, the word 'geodesic' is nothing more
> than the path of an event following the principle of minimal actions. One
> sub-example is how the Snell's Law comes about. Only Fermat's derivation
> follows this sounding principle while Huygens' derivation was nothing more
> than fudging of geometry. Guess whose derivation Feyman endorses.

A world wide conspiracy against the NeoNazi Retired Aerospace
Engineer who used to call himself Australopithecus Afarensis :-)

Dirk Vdm


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