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Old 20-February-2009, 05:44 PM
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Call it aberration, if you must. It's lensing, just a far less visible form. It seems obvious to me that the common "distance source, intermediate mass" illustration is simply to more clearly illustrate the analogy to an optical lens. The distortion of an image of an object by its own gravity is the exact same effect, and it is absurd to claim that calling it by the same name is inaccurate.
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