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Gravitational Lensing

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:46 am
by jpkira
Before LIGO verified [?] Einstein his biggest hits were predicting the orbit change of Mercury [which RS has altos handled without GR] and gravitational lensing caused by large masses like the sun and galaxies. What does RS or RS2 have to say about this?

Lensing

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:01 am
by bperet
Lensing effects are due to the same situation as the precession of the perihelion of Mercury--the presence of coordinate time.

And I should point out that the RS, being scalar, applies to all scales--atoms, being made of coordinate time, "lens" as well as stars and galaxies, which is why light of different frequencies splits into a spectrum when passing near the edge of a slit. A frequency is just a speed.