Recent content by TimP

Einstein? Who's Einstein? :smile: Well, the concept of gravity bending light is easy to grasp, but I'd surely have zero idea how to read the math behind it. It's all just very fascinating to me and I'm glad I found this forum! Tim

Thanks for the welcome, George. I think I'll poke around the site some more until my brain begs for mercy! :) Tim

Thanks so much for answering, diazona. I completely understand your answer, and find comfort in the fact that my interpretation of gravitational pull on light would affect the distance calculation from Earth to a distant star. In fact, it warms my heart to know that I'm not only correct, but...

Hi Everyone, First post here. I'm a 37 year old man who has just recently begun dabbling in the basics of Physics, purely for the academic enjoyment of making by brain go "ow!". Upon reading the "bowling ball on a bed sheet" description of how the gravity of large objects can bend the...