But wouldn't Newton's law of gravity and the result from Einstein's Special Relativity theory that E = mc2 predict
light deflection too?
All previous cases of
light deflection have involved more massive objects, ranging from Jupiter, whose mass is about 1 / 1000th that of the Sun, to giant galaxies, which have roughly 1013 times the Sun's mass.
Michael Jacobs» shot in the 63rd minute took
a light deflection off Will Grigg to deceive goalkeeper David Raya for the first goal.
Not exact matches
But as Gould notes, the gravitational
deflection of
light is a different effect and poses a different test.
This process is called gravitational lensing, and the measurements of the
deflection of
light can again be used to infer the existence of the hole.
In «What Einstein Got Wrong,» Lawrence M. Krauss describes Einstein's erroneous initial calculation of
light's
deflection by gravity (which put the
deflection at half its true value).
Now, they can bounce
light waves off the particle and measure the
deflection.
Pictured in the centre of the image is the strong lens galaxy, whose mass is responsible for the
deflection of the background source's
light.
When the physicists chose to record the laser
light emerging from one of the gates, then the
light traversing that route, alone, ended up with
deflection angles amplified by a factor of more than 100 in the intermediate measurement step.
The team used weak measurements to detect the
deflection of the reflected laser
light and thus to determine how much the motorized mirror had moved.
After accounting for the
deflection of the cosmic rays by the Milky Way's magnetic field, the team found that the particles are travelling about 326 million
light years from a region of extragalactic space containing several potential sources, such as active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies.
That
deflection would shift the apparent position of the source of the
light (say, a distant star).
After coming to LLNL, Heebner developed the chipscale SLIDER deflector that set a world record for the fastest
deflection of a
light beam.
Since galaxies live in the densest regions of the universe, the weak lensing signal from the
deflection of CMB
light is strongest from those parts.
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I'm thinking specifically of Eddington's 1919 confirmation of Einstein's prediction of the
deflection of
light by the sun.