> 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."