Strong Astrophysical Evidence reveals a direct interaction between Gravitation and Electromagnetism does not take place

Gravitational light bending effect of the sun as function of various Gaussian Spheres of radii, 2R, 3R, 4R, 5R, where R is one solar radius and M is the total mass enclosed

2008-12-15 05:40:03 - There is now strong astrophysical evidence supported by important fundamentals of Mathematical Physics that a direct interaction between gravitation and electromagnetism does not take place.

We note that the light bending effect as predicted by General Relativity should be an easily detectable effect at the analytical Gaussian spherical surfaces of the radii 2R, 3R, 4R and 5R, respectively. At these surfaces, an effect of at least one half, one third, one forth, one fifth, respectively, of the observed light bending noted at the solar rim

of the sun of radius R should be an easily detectable effect within currently technical means. Gauss's Surface Law is applied to the enclosed gravitating mass of the sun. The gravitational effect on a ray of light at an the impact parameters 2R, 3R, 4R and 5R would theoretically depend solely on the amount of mass M of the sun that is enclosed within the corresponding analytical Gaussian sphere.

The evidence shows that a gravitational bending effect on the rays of starlight is yet to be observed by modern Astronomy at the distances far above the plasma rim of the sun.

For decades now some very important fundamental principles of mathematical Physics have been seriously misapplied to theories of gravitational lensing or just simply ignored. From astrophysical observations it is apparent that the current understanding of the effects that gravitation should have on light is fundamentally flawed. It is shown that the astrophysical observations pertaining to lensing are consistent with effects due to an indirect interaction involving interfering media, not a direct interaction taking place in vacuum space.

Current technical means in astrophysical observations can not permit a distinction to be made between an indirect interaction and a direct interaction between gravitation and electromagnetism. The thin plasma atmosphere of the sun represents an indirect interaction between the gravitational field of the sun and the rays of light from the stars. Historically, the observational evidence for light bending effects have always been noted to occur predominantly near the thin plasma rim of the sun, not in the vacuum space far above the rim.

The events taking place at the site of Sagittarius A* presents convincing observational evidence that a direct interaction between light and gravitation simply does not take place. This is clearly revealed in the time resolved images of the rapidly moving stellar objects orbiting about Sagittarius A*, a region at the galactic core believed to be a super massive black hole. This is a region that has been under intense observations by the Astrophysicists since 1992. A clear lack of observational evidence for optical lensing due to gravitation is apparent when examining the undistorted images of the stars moving along Keplar paths about Sagittarius A*. The space in the immediate vicinity of a black hole is by definition an extremely good vacuum. The evidence for this is clearly seen in the highly elliptical orbital paths of the rapidly moving stars orbiting about the galactic core mass. The presence of any material media near the galactic core mass would conceivably perturb the motion of the stellar object s16 moving with fractional light velocities and would cause it to rapidly disintegrate. Astrophysical observations reveal that s16 has a velocity approaching 3 % of the velocity of light when passing to within a periastron distance corresponding to 60 astronomical units from the black hole thus giving solid evidence that the space in this region has to be, without a doubt, an extremely good vacuum. It is clear that a direct interaction between the light emitted from the orbiting stars and the gravitation of this super massive galactic core at the site of Sagisttarius A* to date is not observed.

Convincing observational evidence in modern Astrophysics clearly shows that a direct interaction between light and gravitation is yet to be observed. An additional abstract can be found at: adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AN....328..186D