Proving Einstein wrong with highschool physics. General relativity debunked with refraction.

 

‘‘The Shapiro time delay effect, or gravitational time delay effect, is one of the four classic Solar System tests of general relativity. Radar signals passing near a massive object take slightly longer to travel to a target and longer to return than they would if the mass of the object were not present. The time delay is caused by time dilation, which increases the time it takes light to travel a given distance from the perspective of an outside observer.[...]
'Throughout this article discussing the time delay, Shapiro uses c as the speed of light and calculates the time delay of the passage of light waves or rays over finite coordinate distance according to a Schwarzschild solution to the Einstein field equations.’ - Wikipedia

And, just like Einstein, he completely ignores refraction. Which makes his whole calculation wrong, because he does not understand basic physics, which require to take into consideration the index of refraction of the medium, which slows the speed of light and of radio waves (electro-magnetic waves in general), each time the wave enters a medium.

Which is why the radio wave will slow down when passing near a massive object, because of the atmosphere which surrounds the massive object, i.e. sun or planet, which causes the radio wave to refract and decrease its speed to v=c/n, where n is the index of refraction of the medium. And, since time is distance over velocity, t=d/v, then if the velocity v decreases the time t increases. So it will take a longer time for the radio wave to travel the same distance, then if it was traveling at the speed of light in a vacuum c. That’s where the time delay comes from. It has absolutely nothing to do with gravity or general relativity.

The time delay obviously occurs because the radio waves obviously refracts in the solar heliosphere and corona, which slows its velocity to v=c/n, where n is the index of refraction of the gases which make up its atmosphere. But the solar atmosphere/heliosphere is not uniform it has many layers with diferent densities and indexes of refraction, just like the earth's atmosphere. Thats why the change in velocity will vary depending of the layers in which it refracts, and it will be slower in the layers closer to the sun were the atmosphere is thicker.

Shapiro completely ignored the gaseous atmosphere which surrounds the sun and used c the speed of light in a vacuum everywhere in his calculations, instead of v=c/n. As if the sun did not have any atmosphere and was surrounded by a pure vacuum. Because he was ignorant of refraction, Shapiro simply confused the effects of atmospheric refraction (i.e. light bending and slowing) with those of gravitation.

So, just like in the case of gravitational redshift, which was confused by Pound and Rebka with refractional redshift from the gases which they used in the experiment, Shapiro ignored refraction and confused an effect produced by refraction with one of gravitation. Which proves once more that general relativity is an absurd pseudo-science based on a complete ignorance of classical physics and refraction.

This is just another example of how general relativity is illogically proven by these relative scientists, who don’t understand basic refraction physics and confuse well known effect of refraction with immaginary ones of gravitation.

They never use the formula v=c/n, where n is index of refraction, which is learned in highschool (probably because they failed it, just like Einstein). Instead they use c the speed of light in vacuum everywhere, even if there is no vacuum, ignoring all the gases like helium which they use to illogically 'prove' the gravitational effects predicted by general relativity. But all that they prove is Einstein’s prediction that:
'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.’

See also: https://vasileffect.blogspot.com/2024/03/general-relativity-debunked-with-basic.html?m=1