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Old 25-06-2011, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Ernest Wilson View Post
Ah! Space-Time is the reason. It sounds as if it was invented to explain the unexplainable!!! Another thought, if light is a particle then it has mass, so the gravitational field around the star attracts it. On the other hand if it is a wave, then it is refracted. Of course if we say that it is both, then the problem is solved; or is it? Wikipedia seems to have a bit each way.
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Photons have no mass. Whether they're a wave or a particle at the time you observer them, they still travel the curved path in the warped spacetime around a massive object. Remember, photons have a dual particle-wave nature.
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