NASA Scientist Says Coronas Bend Light, Not Gravity
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | NASA Scientist Says Coronas Bend Light, Not Gravity |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2018-08-25 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | general relativity, light bending, plasma |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"NASA Scientist Says Coronas Bend Light, Not Gravity" is an article by David de Hilster published on 25 August 2018 on Beyond Mainstream.
De Hilster notes that Einstein's fame rests less on E = mc² than on the prediction that gravity bends light, now routinely relied on in observational astronomy. He presents the contrary case made by a NASA laser-observation scientist — Edward Dowdye — that the Sun does bend starlight but does so through the plasma of its corona, and that the bending stops where the corona does, which is not what a gravitational account predicts.