Does anyone else question general relativity?

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My understanding of the proof goes like this

x -star
| --- light ray
|
| O -sun
|
o -earth

The light ray is seen to bend a tiny bit when it reaches earth.
My question is this. If we forgot about relativity and assumed the light had a tiny but finite mass (like 10^-100 kg), wouldn't the light bend by just about the same ammount? I tried to test it but I don't know if the gravity d equation can even be approximated.
 
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There are other experimental tests, like the precession of the orbit of mercury which support GR.

Doing the light deflection the Newtonian way - which is similar to your proposal - gives half the observed value.

Do some reading in the Wiki articles.
 

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