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Tom Roberts wrote:
a. Bending occurs at angles 90 degrees from the line-of-sight to
the sun, which means the observation ray never gets closer to
the sun than the earth, and near earth the solar atmosphere is
observed to be FAR too small to account for the measurements.

That is a claim needing to be proven.

Look in the literature. This is well known.



b. These effects occur EQUALLY for light rays of many different
wavelengths; the index of refraction of the solar atmosphere
varies significantly for the different wavelengths used.

All of the measurements are consistent with a model consisting of GR
plus a model of the optical effects of the solar atmosphere. The latter
alone is woefully inadequate.

That is a claim needing to be proven.

Look in the literature. This is well known.

My source is not the original literature, but a review:
C.M.Will, _Theory_and_Experiment_in_Gravitational_Physics_.


I think you have not understood the mechanism explained in the article.
In every deflection angle we observe different parallel color beams due
to the dispersion of different beams of the star. These parallel color
beams make up a white deflected beam.

Then your "mechanism" is just plain wrong -- the beams of different
colors are not parallel BECAUSE THERE IS DISPERSION PRESENT. But your
summary here does not correspond to what you wrote in the article.


Tom Roberts