Why is light affected by gravity if it has no mass?
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It’s not affected by gravity it’s affected by space-time, the light from its POV is still traveling straight but as an observers POV we see the light bend around objects with massive mass which distort space time
A good example is if you were on a boat and you happened to go over a whirlpool, you would have never stopped steering straight yet your facing a new direction now because the whirlpool distorted the ocean around you so to the people sitting on the boat they never stopped going straight but to everyone watching they got turned in a different direction
The whirlpool is the space time distortion of large mass objects
The ocean is just space
And the boat is light in this instance
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