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THE results of the eclipse expeditions of 1919 and 1922 leave little doubt that the deflexion of 1.75 predicted by Einstein for a ray of light passing close by the sun is a fact. Moreover, as a result of the experiments of Lebedew and Poynting, it is admitted generally that such a ray possesses momentum as well as energy. It does not appear to have been noticed that these experimental results lead to certain important consequences when they are combined with the generally admitted principles of conservation of momentum and of energy.
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SCHOTT, G. Some Consequences of the Gravitational Deflexion of Light. Nature 112, 471–472 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112471a0
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