Re: Why does light bend under gravity?

On 26 Feb, 23:07, none <""doug\"@(none)"> wrote:
NoEinstein wrote:
On Feb 24, 4:25 pm, "chu...@xxxxxxxxx" <chu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok...so I've been wondering how on earth does gravity bend light, I
mean I read all about how Einstein's General Relativity describes
space-time, and when there's a mass in space-time it creates a
curve(Bowling ball on a *** or something), and that curve is
Gravity, and when light passes through the curve it bends....but why?

Dear Chutsu:  Einstein has absolutely nothing to do with why light
bends in passing by, say, the eclipsed Sun.  Massive objects like the
Sun have a whirling gob of ether that increases in density the closer
to the surface of the Sun you go, and such density corresponds to the
inverse square law.  Light passing through the Sun's ether glob will
be bent similar to the way desert mirages bend light, or the way glass
with varying indexes of refraction would do (if there were such a
glass).  Please, Guys, get Einstein out of your minds as an
explanation for anything!  -- NoEinstein --

Lets see again. We have a rigorous mathematical expression that has
been experimentally verified and we have a wild handwaving explaination
that will not pass any muster.  Which one should the world believe?

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You have to wonder though - (or at least I do) how the speed of light
can said to be a constant if it can be slowed by gravity so that it
looks like it bends. I guess a constant might be a relative
constant? Does Einstein say anything about the relativity of his
constant? And... does this in any way affect the phase?

Also - what makes the two theories expressed here mutually exclusive?
Can't both be true?

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