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Can you catch light in a pot?
#51
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 3, 2016 at 7:11 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Just like here on earth we don't feel like we're whizzing around in space at thousands of miles per hour.
Simple relativity.

Obviously the entire cosmos is whipping around the earth each day.

Simple relativity. Tongue
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#52
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 3, 2016 at 7:11 pm)ignoramus Wrote: An easier way to visualise it is to think that light isn't being curved by the effects of gravity.
Light "thinks" it is going straight. The warped space it is travelling through is the only thing not straight.
You have to be "outside" to see this effect.

Not bad.  The shortest distance between two points is the path of least resistance which will always seem to be a straight line to the participant.
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#53
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
(June 3, 2016 at 7:11 pm)ignoramus Wrote: An easier way to visualise it is to think that light isn't being curved by the effects of gravity.
Light "thinks" it is going straight. The warped space it is travelling through is the only thing not straight.
You have to be "outside" to see this effect.

Just like here on earth we don't feel like we're whizzing around in space at thousands of miles per hour.
Simple relativity.

Why isn't there some mechanism to rep same people twice? Argh!!!!!
I was jealous of that car of yours now this?!?
Nicely explained in such a manner so as the dum dums like me can grasp in the fullest.
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#54
RE: Can you catch light in a pot?
Pooley, it's just the blind leading the blind here! Like theists! Hehe

If you want the real answer, ask Alex!
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