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    Why Does Light Appear to Fall in a Gravitational Field?

    By pure luck I happen to have a library book that can explain this question in the words of Albert Einstein himself! The book is " Relativity". It is written by Albert Einstein. Usually there is a note in a book about what edition it is but I cannot find it. All I can find is "first Plume...
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    What is the Fabric of Spacetime Made Of?

    Wow. You have said my words exactly, if I could have ever thought of a good way to say my own questions about this. I love Relativity so much, but sometimes when I try to imagine it, the words people say about it just don't help me see it in my mind. I just can not imagine a thing that is not...
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    Light shone in a train bouncing off mirrors

    Thanks for explaining it to me! I love retalivity but every time I think about I seem to get something backward. I believe I read somewhere that Einstein claimed that light did not get a change in speed from the speed of a light bulb or something like that. I think Einstein said that light...
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    Light shone in a train bouncing off mirrors

    Wow! This is fascinating! What if the flashlight is placed on the track bed and bound with duct tape to a cross tie so that it is exactly perpendicular to the tracks according to a protractor held against it? Then, when the train rumbles by, a hobo standing in the embankment and looking...
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