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Old February 6th 08 posted to sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,fr.sci.physique,fr.sci.maths,fr.sci.philo
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On 6 fév, 02:34, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://philipball.blogspot.com/2007/...-was-innocent-...
"With the technology then available, measuring the bending of
starlight was very challenging. And contrary to popular belief,
Newtonian physics did not predict that light would remain undeflected
- Einstein himself pointed out in 1911 that Newtonian gravity should
cause some deviation too. So the matter was not that of an all-or-
nothing shift in stars' positions, but hinged on the exact numbers."


| Right.

| Classical Newtonian mechanics predicts that light will bend with
| twice the angle observed.

How?

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