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Old 20-February-2009, 05:59 AM
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Default Gravitational lensing(or light path bending) and the apparent size of objects.



In this picture light(the green solid line) is leaving a star, but due to gravity bending the path(exaggerated in picture)does not the point of origin of the light appear along the green dotted line, for the observer of that light path?

And if so, if this were to apply to all light leaving that star, would not the star appear bigger for the distant observer, than for the close up observer?



(I asked this in "science and technology" but got no response, but I would like to know what the mainstream view on this is)
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