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Re: Can You Bend Light

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Posted by Killer@607 on December 31, 1997 02:57:58 UTC

: : My 10 year old niece has a science question from her teacher. Does gravity affect light, and can it be bent? : : Any help would be great. : You, physically, cannot bend light, yet if light is passing a mass of great quantity, the mass of the light : will be accelerated by the large mass, and the light will be in the direction of the mass. The amount of bend in the : beam of light may not be notible, but there will always be a slight bend in the light if it is being accelerated by another mass.

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