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The Parker Solar Probe May Shed Some Light on Light Itself

Authors: Peter Horst Rehm

As the Parker Solar Probe passes near the Sun at record-breaking speeds, it may experience a slight shifting of the images taken by its WISPR cameras because of Fizeau-like dragging in the optics. The probe was not designed to maximize this effect, so it might become noticeable only because of a grain of dust on one of the WISPR lenses. If the shifting is detected and found to be proportional to the probe’s speed relative to the Sun’s rotation, it would provide evidence that there is a medium for the propagation of light and that this medium rotates with the Sun.

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