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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
So, the effect of Einstein Rings using the term 'Gravitational Lensing' is innaccurate.
Would it be 'Space-Time' Lensing'?
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Hi,
That wouldn't be a bad way of putting it. Bert meant (I think) that these photons don't feel gravity directly, but just follow their normal path through space-time, the very fabric of which has been distorted by the presence of matter.
Howzat?
