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To: Political Junkie Too
The problem with light being massless is the lensing effect. If light is massless, then why does it bend around galaxies?

Well, that one is easier to explain. Spacetime itself is warped by gravity. The light, still massless, is changed in direction by that warping.

85 posted on 03/03/2025 5:13:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

“The light, still massless, is changed in direction by that warping.”

But is it truly massless? What can we measure photons against to know for sure?

https://arvinash.com/why-no-one-knows-if-photons-really-are-massless-what-if-they-arent/


98 posted on 03/03/2025 5:32:34 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Lazamataz
What if the edge of the universe is warped, too? What if the universe is one giant bowl in every direction instead of one giant sphere around a common center?

What if light is simply climbing up the side of a bowl?

-PJ

146 posted on 03/03/2025 10:11:08 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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