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<p>Chandra, (and all:)<br>
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<p>thank you for the reference to the paper. But perhaps you
remember that we have discussed this idea of E.H. Dowdye in 2012
after he gave a talk at our meeting in San Diego in 2011. It was a
controversy between him and me when I asked him to show his
detailed calculation for the bending of light in the plasma limb
of the sun. He found it sufficient what he had written in his mail
and when I insisted in calculations he declared not to talk to me
any longer.</p>
<p>I have the following concerns regarding Dowdye's approach. <br>
</p>
<p>1) The mentioned paper of Lebach et al. (which Dowdye knows
because I told him about it) shows an agreement between the result
of GRT and Lebach's measurement with an accuracy of 10<sup>-4</sup>.
If an observed deflection caused by the plasma would yield the
same result as GRT with such an accuracy, it would be a great (a
"cosmic") incident. Everyone has to decide whether he/she believes
this.</p>
<p>2) On the other hand the plasma limb would in this case have to
be stable in a way that this incidental fit by 10<sup>-4</sup>
would be constant over the time.</p>
<p>3) Dowdye says that the plasma limb does not reach far out of the
sun (or of every other star) so that at an impact parameter
>>R this deflection does not occur and was not observed. But
this is in obvious conflict with the occurrence of Einstein rings.
In the typical cases the radius of the observed Einstein rings is
greater than the radius of the causing star by many orders of
magnitude (typically a factor of >10<sup>5</sup>). How can
this be explained?</p>
<p>What is the community saying?</p>
<p>By the way: It is of course possible and it was shown by many
renowned cosmologists that the deflection of light at the sun can
be treated as a refraction. But in that cases the known change of
c in a gravitational field (not in plasma) is used. And the result
is fully identical with the result of Einstein's GRT. - This is
the basis of my model of gravity. <br>
</p>
<p>Albrecht<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.06.2017 um 18:51 schrieb
Roychoudhuri, Chandra:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Grahame and the rest of the colleagues:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please, have a look at the attached paper
by a retired NASA scientist, who firmly believes that the
bending of light by stars is due to the refractive
index-gradient produced by the plasma of the stars, not by its
gravity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am just “stirring up the pot” <span
style="font-family:Wingdings">
J</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chandra.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
General
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:general-bounces+chandra.roychoudhuri=uconn.edu@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+chandra.roychoudhuri=uconn.edu@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]<b>On
Behalf Of </b>Dr Grahame Blackwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 26, 2017 11:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Hi
Chip (et al.),</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">I've
sent you the paper in question twice: once 25 Aug '16 in
response to your posting of the same date, and once
specifically in response to your request for same on 23rd
April '17. Let me know if you can't find either one of
these and I can send it again.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">With
regard to refraction of light by gravitational fields*,
this follows directly from slowing of electromagnetic
waves by such fields (a commonsense consideration akin to
swimming through a dense liquid - but this is an
interference effect); the bending is directly analogous to
causing a vehicle to turn by rotating the wheels on one
side slower than those on the other (the same effect also
causes climbing plants to curl around their supports, rate
of growth being inhibited on the side that's touching
something).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">*
Actually by the GRADIENT in such a field.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Grahame</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Original Message -----
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com"
title="chipakins@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Chip
Akins</a> <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To:</span></b><span
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<a
href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">
'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion'</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Monday, June 26, 2017 2:13 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Re:
[General] STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi Grahame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Question.
Regarding your paper on gravity.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If the
attractive force between unlike charges is slightly larger
than the repulsive force between like charges, how do we
explain the refraction of light by gravitational fields?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Do you have a
copy of this paper you can share?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
General [<a
href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dr Grahame Blackwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 25, 2017 5:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion <<a
href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Al
et al.,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">"</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I'm
nervous about bringing gravity in. Really what it is,
is still too mysterious. Even for AE, it is just a
pregiven phenomena, his only goal was to quantify it.
But, perhaps it's an E&M residue resulting from the
disparity in mass between + and - charge carriers.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">I'd
refer you once again to my paper 'Cosmic System
Dynamics: A Cyberneticist's Perspective on Gravitation'
(Kybernetes Vol 40 issue 9/10, Nov 2011, pp 1319-1330).
In this I show in some detail how the phenomenon
referred to as 'gravitation' can be fully explained in
every detail by simply recognising that attractive
forces between opposite charges and repelling forces
between like charges are NOT precisely equal (for unit
charges in each case). A tiny difference between these
two effects (for which there is NO scientific reason why
they should be identical) - attraction being
infinitesimally greater than repulsion - gives rise to
an overall attraction between 'ponderable masses'
precisely in accordance with every recorded
observation. This explanation could well also shed new
light on those effects attributed to 'dark matter' and
'dark energy' - another couple of what could well be
regarded as 'fiddle factors' comparable to Einstein's
'cosmological constant'. Like Einstein's CC they could,
rather, point to a feature of the cosmos that we have
overlooked or wrongly assumed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">If
one looks at it from this very simple perspective,
gravitation is far from being mysterious - it's simply a
2nd-order effect of 'electrostatic' attraction/repulsion
(which is itself an artefact of electromagnetic wave
interference between non-linear configurations of such
waves, i.e. particles of matter) - gravitation, as
another separate 'force' in its own right, doesn't
actually exist.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Grahame</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
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<a href="mailto:af.kracklauer@web.de"
title="af.kracklauer@web.de" moz-do-not-send="true">af.kracklauer@web.de</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span
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Sunday, June 25, 2017 6:41 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Re:
[General] STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">While
I am not completely confident that I fully
understand the objections, perhaps they have to do
with the following point. Ontological chages
occure at (or to) the source of E&M
interaction. Perspective changes happen to (or at)
the sink of E&M interaction---not just
sentient, passive observers. The actual, real
efffect from the source on a sink is physcially
altered by the relative (deleayed) position and
motion of the source. For one thing, it is
Gaussian diminished (i.e., reduced by 1/r**2). In
this sense, time-dilation, space-contraction are
real effects (but only as far as the sink is
concerned!). Sentient observers, such as those
emphasized by Wolf, are no more that a collection
of E&M sinks. So, the "obesrver" is taken
into account in this formulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I'm
nervious about bringing gravity in. Really what
it is, is still too mysterious. Even for AE, it
is just a pregiven phenomena, his only goal was to
quantify it. But, perhaps it"s an E&M residue
resulting from the disparity in mass between + and
- charge carriers. Who knows??? For what it's
worth! ---Al<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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