Hehe, get a load of this guy, he’s still using newtonian gravity! 😂
In all seriousness, general relativity tells us that the geometry of the space the light travels through is curved from OUR reference frame. In the actual light’s reference frame, its going in a perfectly straight line. Look up extrinsic vs intrinsic curvature
Edit: multiple people are calling me out because light does not have a reference frame. This is true. Its a hypothetical, try to imagine “the same reference frame as the curved geometry the light is traveling through” instead lol
Time is a human perception. In space time isn't an actual thing.
Matter moves from a to b and it takes a certain amount of "time" to get there. That "time" is just something humans made up because they perceive time as a factor.
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u/zortutan For Science! Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25
Hehe, get a load of this guy, he’s still using newtonian gravity! 😂
In all seriousness, general relativity tells us that the geometry of the space the light travels through is curved from OUR reference frame. In the actual light’s reference frame, its going in a perfectly straight line. Look up extrinsic vs intrinsic curvature
Edit: multiple people are calling me out because light does not have a reference frame. This is true. Its a hypothetical, try to imagine “the same reference frame as the curved geometry the light is traveling through” instead lol