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From: hertz778@gmail.com (rhertz)
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Subject: Re: Interesting. ChatGPT fails defending starlight deflection when photons
 graze Sun's surface
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:36:40 +0000
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:20:48 +0000, patdolan wrote:

> Wonderful scholarship, as always Richard.  And a very entertaining read.
>  The Einstein Field Equations are comically complicated and utterly
> unusable.  Their closed form is printed on T-shirts, painted on the
> sides of academic buildings, printed atop textbook chapter headings,
> memorized and scrawled on classroom blackboards like a magical
> incantation or a Buddhist koan.  But they are absolutely powerless to
> even compute the normal force that a bowl of soup exerts on my dinning
> room tabletop.
>
> Does Einstein try anywhere to explain the illicit double use of curved
> spacetime in his explanation of the 1.75" bending of starlight at the
> lim?  To wit, he attributes 87.5" to Newtonian gravity (whose cause we
> are taught is spacetime curvature and already baked in to Newtonian
> gravity) and then he goes and attributes another 87.5" to  spacetime
> curvature.  So he is actually resorting to spacetime curvature twice.
> Even a high schooler would have had the common sense to unify the
> curvature of starlight into one agency, instead of two--one of which is
> derivative of the other.  Silly.

Hi Pat!

Glad to see that you found this site. You were missed!