Kip Thorne, who got the Nobel Prize for discovering nonexistent gravitational waves, informs the world that Newton's theory predicted no gravitational deflection of starlight (one of the most blatant lies in the history of science):
Kip Thorne: "A second crucial proof of the breakdown in Newtonian gravity was the relativistic bending of light. Einstein's theory predicted that starlight passing near the limb of the sun should be deflected by 1.75 seconds of arc, whereas NEWTON'S LAW
PREDICTED NO DEFLECTION. Observations during the 1919 eclipse of the sun in Brazil, carried out by Sir Arthur Eddington and his British colleagues, brilliantly confirmed Einstein's prediction to an accuracy of about 20 percent. This dealt the final death
blow to Newton's law and to most other relativistic theories of gravity."
http://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3169&context=space-congress-proceedings
Sabine Hossenfelder is much less dishonest than Kip Thorne (so she will never get the Nobel Prize):
Sabine Hossenfelder: "As light carries energy and is thus subject of gravitational attraction, a ray of light passing by a massive body should be slightly bent towards it. This is so both in Newton's theory of gravity and in Einstein's, but Einstein's
deflection is by a factor two larger than Newton's. [...] As history has it, Eddington's original data actually wasn't good enough to make that claim with certainty. His measurements had huge error bars due to bad weather and he also might have cherry-
picked his data because he liked Einstein's theory a little too much. Shame on him."
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-wonderful-100th-anniversary-gift-for.html
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