| In My Opinion |
| The Atmospheric Lens Effect |
| Now maybe I am the stupid one, for I can not understand where these scientist of today are coming from with all these screwball theories. For it goes against every thing I have been taught in school and have learned over the years. I am by no means implying that the principals taught in school are 100% accurate, and unbending. We use what appears to be right until some thing or some one comes along to prove them wrong. The truth in a written law is judged by how it is interpreted in the language of the land at the time. When we speak of light in general we are referring to that tiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum we see with our eyes. All of the EMS is just that Electromagnetic energy, but visible light is supposedly composed of what we call in English a photon. Which has no physical mass, even though it exhibits both wave and partial motion. Light may be bent when passing through any transparent or semitransparent substance that does not absorb it. The light is bent because it is slowed down while traveling through the substance, and jumps back to it’s normal speed when leaving in the new direction. Lights speed is constant only in a vacuum. Any body in space which has what maybe considered an atmosphere, which is not necessarily a gas like oxygen. Also is a spherical object which that atmosphere is surrounding, and forms a lens that can redirect light. This is a known fact which we experience right here on earth every day. Depending on the angle of incidence to the air determines how the light will respond. This accounts for the twinkling of stars, and other sky effects we encounter. This bending of light by the atmosphere also accounts for the twilight zones on the opposite side of our earth, and has nothing to do with gravity. If light were effected by the gravity of a very high mass, then it could not escape the pull of the suns own gravity or any star, which is further proof that light has no mass. You may say that a star has no atmosphere, but this is not so, an atmosphere can be composed of gaseous elements such as oxygen, or vaporized heaver elements, and/or ionizes partials. Which will still exhibit the lens phenomenon, of bending the light that passes close to the star, just as it does our planet. This is why we are able to see stars which are behind other stars. If a body has no atmosphere and absorbs all light, with out reflecting any of it back, we will not be able to see anything behind it, or even know that it is there except for the fact that the area will be black, such as with a so called Black Hole. Only the stars near the edge can still be seen out lining the outer edge of the body. Any star very close to this body if it is of a higher mass then the star, will pull the star in to it, and pull it apart as it does so. If the black body is of sufficient size the impact of the parts of the star may have very little effect on the body. This may take a long time to complete, and we may never witness it’s demise. We can not trust our eyes completely, as the old saying goes,�seeing is believing.� Gravity is a function of matter, Energy has no mass, and one is not effected by the other. This is why Einstein was never able to unify the fields. Electricity, Electromagnetism, light, and natural magnetism are all forms of energy released from matter. Where gravity is a force (energy in a sense) that works inward to hold all physical elements having mass together. If we heat a piece of metal to incandescence light is released and speeds away effected by none of the matter around it, because it has no mass. But it is absorbed by any solid mass it encounters to some degree depending on the reflecting ability of the object. If you pass a light beam no matter if it is white, colored or infrared, close to the sun it will be bent inward or out ward depending on the angle, and the conditions of the media it is passing through. Any light other then laser has a scattering affect and weakens the further it travels. So I know it would be impractical to use any ordinary light, and that is why they are using the laser. It will bend just the same as it passes through the outer corona of the sun, but not because of it’s gravity. Whether it bends and how much will depend on how far from the sun it is as it passes. If it passes far enough out from the sun where there is no gaseous or ion cloud to slow it down then it will not bend. This in no way proves Einstein right or wrong, because he failed to recognize the lens effect of the atmosphere. People brilliant or not some times are so involved in the complex, they fail to see the simpler answers. Copyright by Gordon K. Glatz |
