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New perspectives on an old problem: The bending of light in Yang-Mills gravity
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New perspectives on an old problem: The bending of light in Yang-Mills gravity

Kazuo Ota Cottrell and Jong-Ping Hsu
Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, pp.378-381
Twelfth Asia-Pacific International Conference on Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (Moscow, 06/28/2015–07/05/2015)
04/2016

Abstract

Section 7. Relativistic Astrophysics
Yang-Mills gravity with electromagnetism predicts, in the geometric optics limit, a value for the deflection of light by the sun which agrees closely with the reanalysis of Eddington's 1919 optical measurements done in 1979. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, on the other hand, agrees very closely with measurements of the deflection of electromagnetic waves made in the range of radio frequencies. Since both General Relativity and Yang-Mills gravity with electromagnetism in the geometric optics limit make predictions for the optical region which fall within experimental uncertainty, it becomes important to consider the possibility of the existence of a frequency dependence in the measurement results for the deflection of light, in order to determine which theory more closely describes nature...

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