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Old 20-February-2009, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by gzhpcu View Post
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...).
Try rolling a ball bearing through a depression on a non-radial trajectory. Is it going in the same direction on exit as it was on entry?
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