Gravity Light Bending

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Gravity light bending. In our everyday experience light seems to travel in straight lines unaffected by gravity. According to newtonian gravity light is not affected by gravity as light is massless. Although einstein made unpublished calculations on the subject in 1912 orest khvolson and frantisek link are generally credited with being the first to disc. This effect is known as gravitational lensing and the amount of bending is one of the predictions of albert einstein s general theory of relativity.

After all in applying newton s law. Bending of light by gravity 2009 05 04 23 52 14 rev bb931e4b905e θ gm rc2 8. This is not because the mass pulls on the. Roen kelly while it is true that photons have no mass it is also true that we see light bend around sources with high mass due to gravity.

On may 29 2019 humanity will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the confirmation of general relativity and 100 years of gravity bending light. Of course light can bend when it passes through the interface between two media think of light. Though many had their doubts on that day einstein. Here is a rough explanation of the origin of those constants.

The 1 for the simplest guess is just that. Einstein s law e mc 2 immediately suggests that light is affected by gravity. Gravitational bending of light don edwards may 24 2007 1 an easy but wrong approach anyone who has done a small angle scattering calculation in elementary nuclear physics might try the same thing for a photon passing close by the sun. The 2 for newtonian gravity is from integrat.