20220117

Gravity is Not Distortion of Space

 

PSI Blog 20220117 Gravity is Not Distortion of Space

 

George Coyne

 

Vancouver, B.C., Office of PSI

 

This blog is my response to an article written by Brian Finlayson and Ray Sumner published on January 6, 2022, at Phys.Org titled A century ago, Australia was ground zero for eclipse-watchers, and helped prove Einstein right. 

 

https://go.glennborchardt.com/Light-bend

 

Einstein based his idea that gravitation is a distortion of space on the similarity between gravitation and all other types of acceleration, which led him to conclude that gravity bends light. [i] Einstein states: “With respect to the Galilean reference body K, such a ray of light is transmitted rectilinearly with the velocity c. It can easily be shown that the path of the same ray of light is no longer a straight line. From this, we conclude that in general, rays of light are propagated curvilinear in gravitational fields.”[ii] The fact that astronomers observe light bending when passing close to the Sun does not mean that gravity, defined as a distortion of space, is the cause. [iii]This phenomenon near stars, which supposedly confirms GRT, has another explanation. Borchardt clarifies what is occurring: the light only bends when it is in the Sun’s corona, which contains baryonic matter, just as the Earth’s atmosphere does. Therefore, the light wave’s behavior results from refraction,[iv] which is an altered direction to wave propagation direction resulting from a change in the transmitting medium. This is supported by the fact that solar atmosphere density increases rapidly from exceptionally low values in interplanetary space to extremely high values nearer the Sun’s surface. Howard Hayden stated that “with a few lines of high school algebra” one can derive refracted starlight," This accuracy level is exact; whereas the tensor calculus and Riemannian geometry of general relativity produce only gives only an approximation." [v]

 

I have been asked “How do you explain light not being able to escape a black hole? Even with an infinite number of refractions, the possibility has to exist for light to make it through, therefore gravity does bend light.”

  

There are two good theoretical ways of accounting for this. There is Glenn Borchardt’s Neomechanics in which a black hole represents a vortex that is too powerful for most light to escape, and Duncan Shaw’s aether theory of gravity described in his peer-reviewed paper On Maxwell’s 1865 Theory of Aether: A Step Toward Unity, Phys. Essays, 33, 256 (2020).[vi]

 

In Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion 2nd Edition (2021) I have a section on how gravity is not distortion of space.

 

 


[i] Albert Einstein, Relativity The Special and the General Theory, 69, 70.

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] Coyne, George, Notfinity Process: Matter-In-Motion 2nd edition(2021)

[iv] Borchardt, Glenn, Infinite Universe Theory.

[v] Bethell, Tom, Rethinking Relativity.

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