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Old 20-February-2009, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Frog march View Post
ok, I shouldn't have used the word 'lensing', not as the term is used at the moment.

But the light does seem to be bending so that objects, like the Sun are magnified, are they, or are they not?
Isn't the space around the sun like a gravitational well? (the old rubber sheet and ball bearing analogy). If so, why would radiating light change directions? Seems to me it would still be going straight (up the well and away...).
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