http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03dark.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=ada1834d925276c4&ei...
THE NEW YORK TIMES: "Dark, Perhaps Forever....A decade ago,
astronomers discovered that what is true for your car keys is not true
for the galaxies. Having been impelled apart by the force of the Big
Bang, the galaxies, in defiance of cosmic gravity, are picking up
speed on a dash toward eternity. If they were keys, they would be
shooting for the ceiling......Some physicists are even willing to burn
down their old sainted Einstein and revise his theory of gravity,
general relativity, to make the cosmic discrepancies go away."

Einsteinans should not attack the old sainted Einstein, aka Divine
Albert. True, Divine Albert's Divine General Relativity, just like
Divine Albert's Divine Special Relativity, is an idiocy that can only
confuse Einsteinians but Divine Albert's 1911 equation describing the
variability of the speed of light in a gravitational field is quite
correct and, by using it, Einsteinians can disperse their deep
cosmological confusion:

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae13.cfm : "So, it is
absolutely true that the speed of light is _not_ constant in a
gravitational field [which, by the equivalence principle, applies as
well to accelerating (non-inertial) frames of reference]….Indeed, this
is exactly how Einstein did the calculation in: "On the Influence of
Gravitation on the Propagation of Light," Annalen der Physik, 35,
1911. which predated the full formal development of general relativity
by about four years. This paper is widely available in English. You
can find a copy beginning on page 99 of the Dover book “The Principle
of Relativity.” You will find in section 3 of that paper, Einstein’s
derivation of the (variable) speed of light in a gravitational
potential, eqn (3). The result is, c’=c0(1+V/c^2) where V is the
gravitational potential relative to the point where the speed of light
c0 is measured."

http://www.blazelabs.com/f-g-gcont.asp "The first confirmation of a
long range variation in the speed of light travelling in space came in
1964. Irwin Shapiro, it seems, was the first to make use of a
previously forgotten facet of general relativity theory -- that the
speed of light is reduced when it passes through a gravitational
field....Faced with this evidence, Einstein stated:"In the second
place our result shows that, according to the general theory of
relativity, the law of the constancy of the velocity of light in
vacuo, which constitutes one of the two fundamental assumptions in the
special theory of relativity and to which we have already frequently
referred, cannot claim any unlimited validity. A curvature of rays of
light can only take place when the velocity of propagation of light
varies with position."......Today we find that since the Special
Theory of Relativity unfortunately became part of the so called
mainstream science, it is considered a sacrilege to even suggest that
the speed of light be anything other than a constant. This is somewhat
surprising since even Einstein himself suggested in a paper "On the
Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light," Annalen der
Physik, 35, 1911, that the speed of light might vary with the
gravitational potential. Indeed, the variation of the speed of light
in a vacuum or space is explicitly shown in Einstein's calculation for
the angle at which light should bend upon the influence of gravity.
One can find his calculation in his paper. The result is c'=c(1+V/c^2)
where V is the gravitational potential relative to the point where the
measurement is taken. 1+V/c^2 is also known as the GRAVITATIONAL
REDSHIFT FACTOR."

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