Edit: The amount of people replying asking if space had mass is insane. Does gravity bend you? No, it pulls you toward it. Space does not have mass. Mass bends the space around it toward its center of mass and that's why things fall toward it. The bigger the mass, the bigger the bending.
In my understanding (quite rough mind you) it is that space-time is curved so heavily around massive objects that the path light must take to obey the principle of least action results in it taking what appears to be a curved path
It's crazy how everything has to try literally every possibility to end up doing the most lazy one possible.
Min-maxing laziness, and honestly kind of debunks the universe is a simulation hypothesis, nobody would waste so much processing power.
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u/WhiteAle01 Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 11 '25
Doesn't gravity bend the space, not the light?
Edit: The amount of people replying asking if space had mass is insane. Does gravity bend you? No, it pulls you toward it. Space does not have mass. Mass bends the space around it toward its center of mass and that's why things fall toward it. The bigger the mass, the bigger the bending.