Significant Findings
Profound Fundamentals of Mathematical Physics found to be Seriously Misapplied
to
Gravitational Lensing
updated 26 March 2009
Abstract
There is now
solid evidence that a direct interaction between gravitation and
electromagnetism does not actually take place. For decades now some very
important fundamental principles of mathematical Physics have been seriously
misapplied to theories of gravitational lensing or just simply ignored. From
astrophysical observations it is apparent that the current understanding of the
effects that gravitation should have on light is fundamentally incorrect.
Astrophysical observations pertaining to lensing are consistent with effects due
to an indirect interaction involving interfering media, not a direct
interaction taking place in vacuum space. Current technical means can
not permit a distinction to be made between an indirect interaction and
a direct interaction between gravitation and electromagnetism. The
thin plasma atmosphere of the sun represents an indirect interaction between the
gravitational field of the sun and the rays of light from the stars. There is
convincing observational evidence that a direct interaction between light and
gravitation is yet to be observed. Historically, the observational
evidence for light bending effects have always been noted to occur predominantly
near the thin plasma rim of the sun, not in the vacuum space far above the rim.
The events taking place at the site of Sagittarius A* presents convincing
observational evidence that a direct interaction between light and
gravitation simply does not take place. This is clearly revealed in the time
resolved images of the rapidly moving stellar objects orbiting about Sagittarius
A*, a region at the galactic core believed to be a super massive black
hole. This is a region that has been under intense observations by the
Astrophysicists since 1992. A clear lack of observational evidence for
optical lensing due to gravitation is apparent when examining the undistorted
images of the stars moving along Keplar paths about Sagittarius A*. The space in
the immediate vicinity of a black hole is by definition an extremely good
vacuum. The evidence for this is clearly seen in the highly elliptical orbital
paths of the rapidly moving stars orbiting about the galactic core mass.
The presence of any material media near the galactic core mass would conceivably
perturb the motion of the stellar object s16
moving with fractional light velocities and would cause it to rapidly
disintegrate. Astrophysical observations reveal that s16
has a velocity approaching 3 % of the velocity of light when passing to within a
periastron distance corresponding to 60 astronomical units from the black
hole thus giving solid evidence that the space in this region has to be, without
a doubt, an extremely good vacuum. It follows from this that a
direct interaction between the light emitted from the orbiting stars and
the gravitation of this super massive galactic core at the site of Sagisttarius
A* is yet to be observed. An additional abstract can be found at:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AN....328..186D
