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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fdn.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!212.27.60.64.MISMATCH!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: In relativity "s" is for "spin" From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) Reply-To: jjlxa31@xs4all.nl (J. J. Lodder) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:15:59 +0200 References: <218bad07e23f4a46a00f34853e2bcf1d@www.novabbs.com> <v5ohjh$3rj15$1@dont-email.me> <f0d1b17bf2a89bba6f0f8348aff99bde@www.novabbs.com> <v5r9b7$f8df$1@dont-email.me> Organization: De Ster Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.5 (ea919cf118) (Mac OS 10.12.6) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <6681bcff$0$11694$426a34cc@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 2024 22:15:59 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.10.137.58 X-Trace: 1719778559 news-4.free.fr 11694 213.10.137.58:49819 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Bytes: 2119 Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> wrote: > On 2024-06-29 18:10:03 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen said: > > > How is light affected twice as much by gravity as everything else, > > according to relativity? According to Galileo and Eotvos, everything is > > affected the same by gravity regardless of mass or material. How does > > relativity "spin" this discrepancy (to use a colloquialism)? > > The speed of an object determines how long the object is close enough > to a more massive object that it is significantly deflected. Light is > faster that anything else so it is deflected less than anything else > (if passing the massive object at the same distance). > > A small object like a single atom can be accelerated to a speed that > is only slightly less than the speed of light. Unfortunately a single > atom is so easily lost that it has not yet been pssible to observe how > much it is deflected by a massibe body. General Relativity predicts > that it is deflected nearly as much as light. Indeed. It is very unkind of the universe not to provide steady point sources of relativistic particles, Jan