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Old 20-February-2009, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
The intermediate galaxy does the lensing. Something has to do it.
Why would you call it something different just because the source
of the light is also the mass that does the lensing?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
Simply because I am using the mainstream definition of gravitational lensing. Look it up in Wikipedia.
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