Accurate Solution to the Gravitational Bending of Starlight by a Massive Object - Journal of Modern Physics

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Journal of Modern Physics

Volume 8, Issue 11 (October 2017)

ISSN Print: 2153-1196 ISSN Online: 2153-120X

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Accurate Solution to the Gravitational Bending of Starlight by a Massive Object ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2017.811112 3,086 Downloads 9,105 Views Citations

Author(s)

Fengyi Huang

Affiliation(s)

Institute of Information Science and Engineering, South-East University, Nanjing, China.

ABSTRACT

An exact solution to the gravitational bending of starlight is derived without resorting to general relativity. The accurate solution can be reduced to the result as obtained by general relativity under special conditions. For objects with a larger mass and a smaller radius, the approximated result as obtained by Schwartzchild’s metric based on general relativity will be invalid. A century-long misunderstanding about the deflection of light by gravity based on the classical theory will also be clarified.

KEYWORDS

Light Deflection, Gravity, Photon Effective Mass

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Huang, F. (2017) Accurate Solution to the Gravitational Bending of Starlight by a Massive Object. Journal of Modern Physics, 8, 1894-1900. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2017.811112.

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