Some Comments on The New Lagrangian Theory of Light Deflection by Gravitation

This is a simple first theory and should be regarded as such. The lagrangian is the same as that used in the precession of planetary orbits, the same lagrangian theory describes precession and light bending on the classical level. Einstein is now disregarded as wrong by much of the profession that follows the ECE sites, and this theory is a limit of ECE unified field theory. The new force law is eq. (12) of note 216(4), and this can be viewed as a new universal force law of gravitation, replacing that of Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton, but still on the classical level. The new universal force law of gravitation for the solar system is a sum of inverse square and inverse cube terms in r. The gravitational potential is a sum of inverse r and inverse square terms in r and gives the lagrangian eq. (10) of note 216(4). This lagrangian is used to calculate the light deflection due to gravitation using the rough approximation (17) for the total energy E. The result for light deflection is eq. (31), which should be regarded as a rough approximation in a first theory. However it gives the experimental value of “twice Newton” with x = 0.378. Many refinements and developments are now possible, because this is a whole new subject of classical dynamics, the oldest part of physics. Einstein became famous because it was thought quite wrongly as it turns out that his theory gave light deflection by gravitation and precession self consistently wthout any adjustable parameters. Grave doubts about Einstein’s mathematics were pointed out as early as Dec. 22nd 1915 by Karl Schwarzschild and repeated by some of the most distinguished physicists for almost a hundred years. The AIAS work finally showed that the theory is riddled with all kinds of errors. Unfortunately there is now a huge amount of dogmatic inertia about the Einstein theory and that is a societal problem. All of that must be rejected as anthropomorphic and unscientific. In the new Lagrangian theory there are no adjustable variables either, the theory is based directly on observation. The theory could have been given any time between 1788 and 2012, but never was. For galactic phenomena and so on the force law is different, so the adjective “universal” is used in the old seventeenth century meaning, i.e. solar system only. Note that ECE relativity is still needed for phenomena such as gravitational red shift, a time dilatation phenomenon basically. The constrained Minkowski method seems to be the best way forward for that. All precessional phenomena can be described by the new lagrangian method, e.g. precession of the equinox and perhaps also Thomas precession. The new universal gravitational potential looks entirely different from the old inverse r potential.