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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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To: Lazamataz; All
"One answer is that all particles,
including photons,
move along geodesics in general relativity
and the path they follow
is independent of their mass...."




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82 posted on 06/04/2018 5:25:49 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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