Timeline for Why do people say we need general relativity in order to explain why light is affected by gravity?
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 13:25 | comment | added | Matt | Well you can also say that any law of physics affects everything the same, but even so they depend on the properties of these things. In this case, the total virtual force exerted on both objects depends on the product of both object's energies. When one object is much more massive than the other, than you can ignore the force exerted on it, and thus ignore the mass the of the smaller object. But theoretically it still matters. | |
| Mar 5, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | Señor O | Wait what? It does affect everything the same. | |
| Mar 5, 2021 at 1:44 | comment | added | Matt | I mean, I didn't make that statement, you did. I was only confirming that it's true. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 23:59 | comment | added | Señor O | @Matt thats a nonsensical statement. EVERYTHING has some total energy. So it has nothing to do with it having energy, it has to d with it existing. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 21:17 | comment | added | Matt | Well gravity does affect everything that has some total energy. I never said "the same" though, obviously it depends on the amount of energy. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 18:37 | comment | added | Señor O | I don't really get where you're seeing a legitimate issue here. I guess you're proposing we could say gravity affects everything based on its total energy, but that's flawed because that's identical to saying gravity affects everything the same because literally everything has some total energy | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 18:26 | comment | added | Matt | Also, worth noting that Einstein came out with $E=mc^2$ the same year as special relativity (in one of his infamous 1905 papers), so a good bit before he came up with general relativity. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | Matt | This is more of a historical answer. Meanwhile, people are still saying this. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 17:16 | history | answered | Señor O | CC BY-SA 4.0 |