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Light deflection happens in newtonian physics as well, assuming you use Newton's definition of light as a particle/corpuscule: https://physics.stackexchange.com
by nimish 5y ago
Light deflection happens in newtonian physics as well, assuming you use Newton's definition of light as a particle/corpuscule: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29837/does-newtonian-mechanics-predict-the-bending-of-the-course-of-light-by-objects-w https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29837/does-newto...
It's just 2x the GR value. That's one reason why it took so long to verify as you needed to have pretty clean data to rule out the classical explanation.
- fsh 5y agoI don't think that anyone took the corpuscular theory of light seriously after its wave nature had been discovered in the early 19th century. In classical electrodynamics, light is completely unaffected by gravity.