Answered! Neither electric nor magnetic fields bend light therefore EAT is hogwash.
If you disagree post evidence supporting EAT.
Can you explain how you readily accept the mythical "g" can bend light, yet make the statement that electricity and magnetism cannot?
It's not just the "mythical g" that can bend light but the UA as promoted by the Society also bends light by exactly the same minuscule amount .
When I get the time I might try to explain it but in the meantime you could read:
Einstein The elevator, the rocket, and gravity: the equivalence principle
or Einstein online: The equivalence principle and the deflection of light
or The Great Courses Daily, Einstein’s Experimental Elevator
Or you might watch a video.
Before you dismiss this video out of hand, just remember that the Equivalence Principle is the basis is the Flat Earth Society's Universal Acceleration Theory as in: The Flat Earth Society Wiki: Equivalence Principle
Gravity and Acceleration The Equivalence Principle
Now as to neither electric nor magnetic fields not bending light:
Electric or magnetic fields only affect charges and the photon has no charge. Charges can cover "magnets" as well because they are only moving charges.
There are extremely small relativistic quantum effects of extremely strong electric and magnetic fields on photons but they are so small as to be negligible here.
Hope it helps.
Wait, now you are stating electrical fields and magnetic fields can alter light.
It's not my claim. It's the claim of physicists that know a lot more about Einstein's General Relativity than I can ever hope to know.
How can you determine it is negligible in this discussion?
I can't. All I can do is refer to those who can calculate this sort of thing.
The limit of my knowledge would be that the carriers of electromagnetic radiation, photons, are non-magnetic and have no electric charge.
As a result of that electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fields cannot bend light at all.
On strongest magnetic field:
While Russian scientists were able to create a magnetic field of an astonishing 2,800 teslas, their equipment blew up with the field.
I can't find any good reference on the highest electric field in the laboratory but from my own experience in a high voltage laboratory, 1 MV/m would be very high.
Now if you test the bending of light experimentally with "little" fields like that the observed bending of light would be found to be zero, zilch, nada!
If you can find better information, good luck!
Now, I did say that "There are extremely small
relativistic quantum effects of extremely strong electric and magnetic fields on photons but they are so small as to be negligible here."
But before I waste my time going into General Relativity and the fact that a magnetic field is "energy" and energy, like mass, bends spacetime, I must ask a simple question.
Do you,
totallackey, accept that
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is correct.
If you don't then for YOU there is no reason that either electrical fields or magnetic fields could bend electromagnetic radiation where the energy carriers, photons, are non-magnetic and have no electric charge.
If you do accept that
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is correct just let's know and we can go further into the matter.
Light itself is a known product of electrical and magnetic force.
Sorry, I think that alone nullifies your position.
No, the fact that light itself is known to be electromagnetic radiation does not nullify my position in the slightest.
Provided the medium that the light is propagating through is linear (that is the permittivity,
ε, and permeability,
μ, are constant) then Maxwell's equatuions are linear.
As a result of this electric, magnetic and electromagnetic simply add and pass through each othe quite unaffected.
Bye.