"Matthew Cline" wrote...
Having copious spare time, I'm writing a refutation of "The Einstein
Hoax" (http://christianparty.net/einstein.htm). I'm posting here in
hopes that people will offer constructive criticisms, and also answer a
few questions.
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1801: Johann Georg von Soldner publishes his predictions [amount of
deflection of light by the sun] which Einstein plagiarized as his
predictions 114 years later, not citing Soldner in "his" 1915 paper

Would Einstein had been required to cite Soldner, since Einstein's
equations would have independently derived the same predictions? And
where they the same? Do the Newtonian predictions for the amount of
deflection match predictions Einstein made?
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Einstein's first stab at the problem gave the same answer as
Soldner's Newtonian result...

a = 2GM / rc2 = 0.83 arcsec, M=M,sun, r=r,sun

....but after completing the GT, it became

a = 4GM / rc2 = 1.74 arcsec

- Brian