全部 标题 作者
关键词 摘要

OALib Journal期刊
ISSN: 2333-9721
费用:99美元

查看量下载量

相关文章

更多...

Soldner Had Found in 1802 the Deflection of the Light by the Sun as the General Relativity Shows

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2018.98095, PP. 1545-1558

Keywords: Cosmology: Theory

Full-Text   Cite this paper   Add to My Lib

Abstract:

Systematically, it is written in the literature that only the general relativity (GR) allows finding the just value of the deflection of the light by the sun. Yet, we noted, by reading over the original text of SOLDNER of 1801: “Ueber die Ablenkung eines Lichtstrals von seiner geradlinigen Bewegung, durch die Attraktion eines Weltkörpers, the welchem er nahe vorbei geht” (that we think it is important to put in English in full in Appendix) that, contrary to what we read since about 100 years, he found the right value. Soldner had started from a Newtonian gravitational calculation and, with the value of 1801, find 1.64”. This calculation, with the actual values, allows finding the right value of 1.752”. There are reasons to explain the wrong calculations which we usually make. However, there is no epistemological reason for questioning the general relativity. Some observations are only explained by the GR. But the Newtonian calculations are much simpler. We can continue to say that the theory of Newton is incomplete but we cannot say it is false.

References

[1]  Soldner, J. (1804) Ueber die Ablenkung eines Lichtstrals von seiner geradlinigen Bewegung, durch die Attraktion eines Weltkörpers, an welchem er nahe vorbei geht. Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, 161-172.
[2]  Michell, J. (1784) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 74, 35-57.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1784.0008
[3]  Laplace, P.S. (1796) Mécanique céleste, livre cinquième, chap. VI: Considérations sur le système du monde et sur les progrès futur de l’astronomie, 293-312.
[4]  Will, C.M. (1988) American Journal of Physics, 56, 413-415.
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.15622
[5]  Huang, F.Y. (2017) Journal of Modern Physics, 8, 1894-1900.
https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2017.811112

Full-Text

Contact Us

service@oalib.com

QQ:3279437679

WhatsApp +8615387084133