RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
June 3, 2016 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2016 at 10:02 am by IATIA.)
(June 3, 2016 at 9:48 am)pool the great Wrote:(June 3, 2016 at 9:32 am)Alex K Wrote: Pooley,
Contrary to what is popularly said, according to Einstein, gravity affects Energy and is produced by Energy. Mass is just a special form of energy. As IATIA says above, think of it as curvature of space+time and it becomes clear that everything is affected!
So you guys are saying gravity affects space time, okay, but how can gravity affecting space time affect light causing it to bent ?
Light doesn't need a medium to travel right?
This is confusing.
According to my knowledge, light has no mass, light doesn't need a medium to travel, I mean, if light doesn't need space time to exist or travel how can the effect gravity have on space time reflect on light?
(is my question legitimate or should I read up on it?)
It was discovered that light needs no medium, but recently that is on the table. (The Michelson–Morley experiment may be flawed)
Think of space-time as a river that anything will float in. Drop anything in and it will flow with the river. The speed of a boat includes the speed of the current. Light of course is a little more complex than that, but the principle is sound.
Space-time has always existed. Without space-time, there would be nothing.
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