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question about gtravitational time dialation

36grit
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Question about gravitational time dialation

 

Could one say that: as a light ray bends around a large body of mass that, the distance (space) between the photons stretches and/or bends towars the gravitationally massive object?

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Question about gravitational time dialation

 

Could one say that: as a light ray bends around a large body of mass that, the distance (space) between the photons stretches and/or bends towars the gravitationally massive object?

 

I don't quite understand the question.

Photons in a gravitational field will follow paths that we classically think of as curved if that's what you are asking.

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