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From: clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen)
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Subject: Re: Einstein's derivation of a doubling of Newtonian deflection.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:35:33 +0000
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:56:40 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

> LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:14:20 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>>> LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How relativity derives the amount of the deflection:
>>>>
>>>> 1. It accepts the mass-velocity relationship, which prohibits anything
>>>> with any mass from reaching light speed, meaning the photon can have no
>>>> mass.
>>>> 2. Therefore, according to relativity, gravity cannot affect photons.
>>>>
>>>> Relativity either has to abandon the mass-velocity relationship or
>>>> abandon the claim that photons are affected by gravity. Until then, it
>>>> remains self-contradictory nonsense, as always.
>>>
>>>
>>> and then they continue the con by making up werds like...gravity energy.
>>>
>>>
>>> wats next? spacetime??
>>>
>>>
>> If you would avoid putting words in my mouth like "con," I would
>> appreciate it. Then, you might begin to engage in intelligent discourse.
>> If you are defending relativity, you should be able to explain the
>> contradiction. You have not defended it from this criticism. What do you
>> believe? Do photons have mass, or do they not? Can you make up your
>> mind?
>
>
>
> Is the source of gravity mass or energy?
>
Answer a question with a question when you have no answer. The source of
the gravity energy is the mass.