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::::: It is overwhelmingly clear that "what people now think now" is that light is massless, which therefore incurs no deflection under Newtonian gravitation.  Indeed, we have long known that the speed of light is constant, and that alone contradicts the idea that gravity can accelerate or attract light; if that was true, then light from each star would be traveling at a different speed when it hit us, depending on the star's distance and mass.

::::: It is overwhelmingly clear that "what people now think now" is that light is massless, which therefore incurs no deflection under Newtonian gravitation.  Indeed, we have long known that the speed of light is constant, and that alone contradicts the idea that gravity can accelerate or attract light; if that was true, then light from each star would be traveling at a different speed when it hit us, depending on the star's distance and mass.

::::: Granted, people might look at the equations for mass deflection, observe that the deflection is the same regardless of mass, and suspect that deflection may also hold for m=0, i.e. massless light.  But while we may ''suspect'' that, the equations don't directly ''predict'' it.  There is no equation in Newtonian mechanics that predicts a gravitational pull on an object of mass 0.

::::: Granted, people might look at the equations for mass deflection, observe that the deflection is the same regardless of mass, and suspect that deflection may also hold for m=0, i.e. massless light.  But while we may ''suspect'' that, the equations don't directly ''predict'' it.  There is no equation in Newtonian mechanics that predicts a gravitational pull on an object of mass 0. --[[User:NgSmith|NgSmith]]

--[[User:NgSmith|NgSmith]]