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[QUOTE="PainterGuy, post: 6439712, member: 311618"] Thank you, [USER=461323]@DrClaude[/USER]! Below, I've edited Para 3 to make some supplementary queries. The text in red has been added by me. Let's assume all the information provided by the text in green is supported by reference [6] and the same goes for text in blue which is supported by reference [7]. A reader might be misled into believing that all the information provided by the text, both red and green, is supported by reference [6] but this is actually not the case. The text in red is author's own understanding and possibly an interpretation after reading several random pieces of literature from that era. How are such cases handled or what's the best to get around such issues? Thank you![COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Soldner was the first person who came to the definitive conclusion that light is affected by gravity though he had his own doubts about Newton's corpuscular theory of light. Soldner did not publish his work and did most of his research in thermodynamics.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]Albert Einstein calculated and published a value for the amount of gravitational light-bending in light skimming the Sun in 1911, leading Phillipp Lenard to accuse Einstein of plagiarising Soldner's result. Lenard's accusation against Einstein is usually considered to have been at least partly motivated by Lenard's Nazi sympathies and his enthusiasm for the Deutsche Physik movement.[/COLOR] [B][6][/B] [COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Einstein's 1911 calculation was based on the idea of gravitational time dilation. In any case, Einstein's subsequent 1915 general theory of relativity argued that all these calculations had been incomplete, and that the "classic" Newtonian arguments, combined with light-bending effects due to gravitational time dilation, gave a combined prediction that was twice as high as the earlier predictions.[/COLOR] [B][7][/B] [/QUOTE]
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