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Old June 8th 17, 09:03 AM posted to sci.astro
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Default Confirmations of Einstein's Relativity: Either Fraudulent or Inconclusive

The problem is with their number. Einsteinians have been producing "confirmations" of Divine Albert's Divine Theory for more than a century and now critics have to clean up Augean stables - no matter how many frauds you have exposed, you end up buried under Einsteinians' excretions. Yet sometimes even hopeless battles should be fought.

An obvious fraud: Gravitational lensing confirms Einstein's relativity:

"How does gravitational lensing work? If light traveling towards us from some distant star passes by another massive object - say, another star or galaxy - that light gets deflected, and its path is altered. When that light reaches Earth, it appears to be coming from a different direction than its original path. We see the star as being in a different position on the sky than where it's actually located. This apparent movement of the background star is exactly double what you would see in Newtonian gravity; hence, it provides a simple way to test Einstein's theory." http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ned-180960136/

In order to be able to find out which prediction - Newton's or Einstein's - is correct, one must know the mass of the "massive object", its precise geometry, and the precise distribution of the mass within this geometry. Such knowledge is only available when the "massive object" is the Sun, and even in this case things are not certain:

"After He Said Einstein Was Wrong, Physicist Henry Hill Learned That Fame's Benefits Are Relative [...] A major proof of Einstein's theory involved a peculiarity in the planet Mercury's orbit, which he attributed to the distortion of space created by the great mass of the sun. Central to the proof was an assumption that the sun is perfectly spherical. But Hill's observations showed that the sun is not perfectly round, a discrepancy that Hill has said may be "Achilles tendon of the general theory." http://people.com/archive/after-he-s...e-vol-18-no-10

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