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To: Lazamataz
The following image shows the deflection of light rays (photons) that pass close to a spherical mass.

http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/light_deflection.html

78 posted on 06/04/2018 3:52:28 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
Yes, photons interact with gravity. However, if they had ANY mass, they could never reach the speed of light.

It takes infinite energy to accelerate anything with mass to the speed of light.

80 posted on 06/04/2018 5:18:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: AdmSmith
Sometimes people ask "If light has no mass how can it be deflected by the gravity of a star?". One answer is that all particles, including photons, move along geodesics in general relativity and the path they follow is independent of their mass.
81 posted on 06/04/2018 5:19:59 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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