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Why does light bends?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 11/20/2022

In a sense, light does not bend. Light sometimes passes through space (or space-time) that is warped or bent because of a nearby object having very strong gravity. The light passes through this space in what (from the light's point of view) is a straight line. To other observers the light may appear to have followed a bent path. So gravity warps space-time, and light appears to bend as it travels through this warped space-time. The light isn't doing anything except following what is a completely natural path through space.

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Elza Olson

Lvl 13
2y ago

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