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http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sp_gr.html
"Is light affected by gravity? If so, how can the speed of light be constant? Wouldn't the light coming off of the Sun be slower than the light we make here? If not, why doesn't light escape a black hole? Yes, light is affected by gravity, but not in its speed. General Relativity (our best guess as to how the Universe works) gives two effects of gravity on light. It can bend light (which includes effects such as gravitational lensing), and it can change the energy of light. But it changes the energy by shifting the frequency of the light (gravitational redshift) not by changing light speed. Gravity bends light by warping space so that what the light beam sees as "straight" is not straight to an outside observer. The speed of light is still constant." Dr. Eric Christian Pentcho Valev |
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On 8 Aug, 09:15, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sp_gr.html "Is light affected by gravity? If so, how can the speed of light be constant? Wouldn't the light coming off of the Sun be slower than the light we make here? If not, why doesn't light escape a black hole? Yes, light is affected by gravity, but not in its speed. General Relativity (our best guess as to how the Universe works) gives two effects of gravity on light. It can bend light (which includes effects such as gravitational lensing), and it can change the energy of light. But it changes the energy by shifting the frequency of the light (gravitational redshift) not by changing light speed. Gravity bends light by warping space so that what the light beam sees as "straight" is not straight to an outside observer. The speed of light is still constant." Dr. Eric Christian A more developed explanation of the constancy/variability of the speed of light in a gravitational field that makes bellicose zombies in Einstein criminal cult go into convulsions, sing "Divine Einstein" and look for heretics to destroy: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic..._of_light.html Sreve Carlip: "Einstein went on to discover a more general theory of relativity which explained gravity in terms of curved spacetime, and HE TALKED ABOUT THE SPEED OF LIGHT CHANGING IN THIS NEW THEORY. In the 1920 book "Relativity: the special and general theory" he wrote: . . . according to the general theory of relativity, the law of the constancy of the velocity of light in vacuo, which constitutes one of the two fundamental assumptions in the special theory of relativity [. . .] cannot claim any unlimited validity. A curvature of rays of light can only take place when the velocity of propagation of light varies with position. Since Einstein talks of velocity (a vector quantity: speed with direction) rather than speed alone, it is not clear that he meant the speed will change, but the reference to special relativity suggests that he did mean so. THIS INTERPRETATION IS PERFECTLY VALID AND MAKES GOOD PHYSICAL SENSE, BUT A MORE MODERN INTERPRETATION IS THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS CONSTANT IN GENERAL RELATIVITY. The problem here comes from the fact that speed is a coordinate-dependent quantity, and is therefore somewhat ambiguous. To determine speed (distance moved/time taken) you must first choose some standards of distance and time, and different choices can give different answers. This is already true in special relativity: IF YOU MEASURE THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN AN ACCELERATED REFERENCE FRAME, THE ANSWER WILL, IN GENERAL, DIFFER FROM c. In special relativity, the speed of light is constant when measured in any inertial frame. In general relativity, the appropriate generalisation is that the speed of light is constant in any freely falling reference frame (in a region small enough that tidal effects can be neglected). In this passage, Einstein is not talking about a freely falling frame, but rather about a frame at rest relative to a source of gravity. IN SUCH A FRAME, THE SPEED OF LIGHT CAN DIFFER FROM c, basically because of the effect of gravity (spacetime curvature) on clocks and rulers." Pentcho Valev |
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Et si t'allais faire du sport au lieu de nous faire chier ?
Pentcho Valev a écrit : un gros tas de conneries. -- C'est Ã* l'heure du repas qu'on voit les boules du chat |
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