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The cited paper is itself against the mainstream.
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Not really, the author use mainstream datas to go against the mainstream.
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Here's why I don't think his approach will work out. If you read chapter 40 of Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, they point out that experiments that use radio waves do not need an eclipse to gather data.
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But that is what the author say
The substitution of the direct experimental test for the deflection of visible light during solar eclipses by the indirect measurement of the delay of radio signals traveling between a space probe or from extra galactic sources and the Earth is examined.
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My goal is to use mainstream data to go against the mainstream.
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That is also the work done by the author.
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The reason a proposal must be able to be written as a dynamic metric has to do with tests of the equivalence principle. The dynamic metric says "Hey, I don't care what you are made of - light, gold, lead, a feather - this is how distance is measured near this mass". Then you test light, the feather, and yes, the answer is exactly the same.
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Lets go for tests of the equivalence principle.
http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/EINSTEIN/Chapter10.html