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Light Dispersion in Gravitational Field

Version 1 : Received: 8 July 2022 / Approved: 11 July 2022 / Online: 11 July 2022 (02:25:35 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 18 August 2022 / Approved: 19 August 2022 / Online: 19 August 2022 (08:04:34 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 31 July 2023 / Approved: 1 August 2023 / Online: 2 August 2023 (02:29:05 CEST)

How to cite: Zhu, Y. Light Dispersion in Gravitational Field. Preprints 2022, 2022070145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0145.v3 Zhu, Y. Light Dispersion in Gravitational Field. Preprints 2022, 2022070145. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0145.v3

Abstract

In any region of a space, the gravitational field cannot be eliminated. The speed of light in a vacuum has never been observed and cannot be observed with current technology. Till now, only the speed of light in a gravitational field has been observed. It results in that all the observed speed of light are always being varied by the gravity. Here, it is presented that light could be dispersion in a gravitational field analogous to the dispersion of light in the Newtonian prism experiment. The relativistic mass density on the surface of a neutron star is on the level of 1017kg/m3 while on the surface of the Earth is only 10-7kg/m3, the effect of the gravitational field acting on the speed of light by a neutron star is much larger than that by the Earth. Therefore, the dispersion of light in strong gravitational field could be generally observed from the image of a star and it should have been observed through the double-image gravitational lensing and the spectroscopic binary system. And, it should affect the observed numbers, spectrogram, size and distance of the celestial objects.

Keywords

dispersion of light; gravitational field; fundamental physics constant; vacuum; speed of light; spectroscopic binary system; double gravitational lens

Subject

Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics

Comments (1)

Comment 1
Received: 2 August 2023
Commenter: yin zhu
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: As I was writing this manuscript, I thought, if light dispersion in gravitational field is true, then, first, it has been generally observed; and second, it need be considered in the astronomical observation. Now, I read the papers providing the evidence for the second subject. Therefore, I added the references[14-16] and in the conclusion added these words: “It was observed that the observed size of the image of a galaxy is a function of the wavelength of the light.[14,15] And, a method is presented that the distance of extragalactic system can be measured with “the time lag between variations in the short wavelength and long wavelength light from an active galactic nucleus”.[16] It should imply that, to have a right measurement of the numbers and spectrogram of the celestial objects and to have an accurate measurement of the size and distance of a celestial object, light dispersion in gravitational field need be considered.” And, added a supplementary from [14-16].
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