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I'm not a physicist but I wonder how is it possible to disambiguate this effect from classical "Einsteinian" gravitational deflection? Neutron stars must have s
by rsp1984 10y ago
I'm not a physicist but I wonder how is it possible to disambiguate this effect from classical "Einsteinian" gravitational deflection? Neutron stars must have strong gravitational effects on light as well.
- sidlls 10y agoWe can predict the effects of gravitational lensing and note a difference (if applicable and there are any) which must then be explained by some other mechanism. That could be anything from a misestimation of the metric in the region of the body to quantum effects as this observation posits.
- dmd 10y agoSuppose someone gives you a dollar, and then someone gives you another dollar. Now you have two dollars, which is more than a dollar. Disambiguating two dollars from one dollar is fairly easy, because one is more than the other. Same principle.
- anonymfus 10y agoGoogle brought me here: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505100 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505100
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoG-lensing does not affect polarization.