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martinscherer
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Hello everyone,
first of all, english isn't my native language, so please excuse any spelling-mistakes during this post.
secondly, i am very much new to the world of physics in general, but getting more and more interested by the whole concept of general relativity and quantum physics.
thirdly, my question is infinately hard to ask (for me anyway) in an understandable way, so i hope you are able to grasp what I'm actually pondering about.
and forth, I'm sorry about the horrible Paint illustrations, I have no other tools available at this time.
So, the question(s)..
Setting:
An object with an enormous amount of mass (black hole? antimatter? blackmatter?) is positioned smack in the middle of to other object, one being a star much like our sun, the other being a point where an observer stands. Let's just call it Earth at this time.
Now, while standing on Earth observing in a straight line towards the stars "absolute" position, these questions arise in my (strange) head:
1. would not the star be visible as a circle, since the light would bend around all "sides" the black hole before it reaches earth?
..and if you go one step further..
2. would not the star be visible as just a fog, a mist, of light, since the light would be bent in an infinite amount of angles around, and away from, the black hole?
I'll try to visualize it with some drawings:
Figure 1:
Light is bent around the black hole, hitting the Earth in an infinite number of places.
Figure 2:
Light is bent around the black hole, arriving at "two" (just to make it easier) different places, making it look like the same star was to places at the same time from the observers point of view.
If anyone can shed any light (yeah, i know) to make it somewhat easier for me to grasp the concept of what is really happening, it would make my shoulders hurt a lot less.
Thank you,
Martin, Norway
first of all, english isn't my native language, so please excuse any spelling-mistakes during this post.
secondly, i am very much new to the world of physics in general, but getting more and more interested by the whole concept of general relativity and quantum physics.
thirdly, my question is infinately hard to ask (for me anyway) in an understandable way, so i hope you are able to grasp what I'm actually pondering about.
and forth, I'm sorry about the horrible Paint illustrations, I have no other tools available at this time.
So, the question(s)..
Setting:
An object with an enormous amount of mass (black hole? antimatter? blackmatter?) is positioned smack in the middle of to other object, one being a star much like our sun, the other being a point where an observer stands. Let's just call it Earth at this time.
Now, while standing on Earth observing in a straight line towards the stars "absolute" position, these questions arise in my (strange) head:
1. would not the star be visible as a circle, since the light would bend around all "sides" the black hole before it reaches earth?
..and if you go one step further..
2. would not the star be visible as just a fog, a mist, of light, since the light would be bent in an infinite amount of angles around, and away from, the black hole?
I'll try to visualize it with some drawings:
Figure 1:
Light is bent around the black hole, hitting the Earth in an infinite number of places.
Figure 2:
Light is bent around the black hole, arriving at "two" (just to make it easier) different places, making it look like the same star was to places at the same time from the observers point of view.
If anyone can shed any light (yeah, i know) to make it somewhat easier for me to grasp the concept of what is really happening, it would make my shoulders hurt a lot less.
Thank you,
Martin, Norway
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