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| Sep 2, 2018 at 22:20 | comment | added | balu | …This is why I repeated Dale's comment at the beginning of my post: Most other answers here address a slightly different question than yours and somewhat quietly assume that you know that SR doesn't predict the bending of light. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 22:17 | comment | added | balu | @CyrilBarnert There is no contradiction. Everyone who has responded to your question so far stated something along the lines of "in special relativity, photons have no mass" and "Newtonian gravity predicts gravitational deflection if you assume photons have some mass". But the latter is a purely classical (i.e. Newtonian, i.e. pre-relativistic) argument. Again, in special relativity photons don't have mass, so in particular it also doesn't predict deflection. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 20:20 | comment | added | Cyril Barnert | It seems that the various responders still contradict each other, some arguing that in SR there is no gravity-bending of light, while others (and the references which they cite), insist that SR does predict light-bending at precisely half the value of GR's calculated effect. Can anyone on either side of the disagreement rebut the arguments on the other side? | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 14:30 | history | edited | balu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2018 at 14:24 | history | answered | balu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |