Re: Bending of light not well authenticated

"Koobee Wublee" <kublai@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> No, the deflection of the photon is an abstract concept that can only
> be proven in the mechanism of mathematics.

While it can only be proven mathematically, there is nothing in
classical physics that can't be understood intuitively, and intuition
gives guidance to overview of the math.

> I don't think you have understand me earlier in the previous post.

Quite possibily so.

> You can never observe the bending path of a photon directly. Only in
> a medium filled with smoke, which reflects some photons, in a beam of
> laser you can see the path of a photon takes.

Yes, that's why I used three glass surfaces, which would have partial
reflection, so we could see the beam path in that frame.

> I also think you meant "a light beam in an accelerated environment
> appears to bend when examined from flat space.

No, I do not mean that.

When examined from flat space, a light be appears straight. This is
almost a tautology, because flat space means no curvature and in flat
space light appears to be straight with no curvature.

I mean from an accelerated frame, light will appear curved, which would
otherwise appear straight in flat space.

> Your 2nd run is demonstrated by Michelson-Morley experiment.

I don't see any connection to Michelson-Morley. I hadn't approached
anything relativistic, and was only establishing the acceleration makes
space appear curved.

>From there I was going to the equivalence principle.

--
Randy M. Dumse

Caution: Objects in mirror are more confused than they appear.


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