Recent content by Antonio dela Vinci

Does the beach ball represent the Earth with its curved surface and the line between the two dots represent the light from one point to another? Does this mean that as for us observers in the plane, light appears to travel in a straight line but if we look at it from the perspective of the...

You could shine your flashlight into a wall and see that the light still hits the wall without bending significantly towards the ground unlike when you throw a ball to the same wall and see it hit the wall (given you apply enough force) and fall back to the ground.

I might have made it ambiguous but what I meant was that light affected by gravity in the same way that solids are.

How would the world be if light didn't travel in a straight line? I was wondering how it would affect life.