POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Gravitation : Re: Gravitation Server Time
8 Jul 2024 07:40:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gravitation  
From: clipka
Date: 21 Oct 2015 09:25:00
Message: <5627922c$1@news.povray.org>
Am 21.10.2015 um 12:01 schrieb scott:
>> Which is exactly why light appears to "bend" around massive objects.
> 
> How does the theory deal with the light potentially having to go faster
> than the speed of light (for example when the photons are aimed straight
> at the centre of a massive object from afar)? If light always goes at
> "c" relative to the local space, and the space is getting distorted,
> this would appear to make the light go faster than "c" no?

No, it would just reduce the distance the light needs to go.

(Also, mass tampers not only with space but also with time.)


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