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**shalayka@gmail.com**

On Feb 6, 1:34*am, 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."

However Budding Young Einsteins are taught in a different way:

http://pirsa.org/speaker/Lee_Smolin
Lee Smolin - ISSYP Keynote Session
Speaker(s): Lee Smolin
Abstract:
Date: 01/08/2007 - 1:00 pm

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.c...?peid=5f32739a...
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Pentcho Valev

History disagrees with the above comment by Smolin (assuming it was
quoted correctly):
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/200...on-at-sun.html