"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Tom Ring wrote:
No violation Cecil, space bends, not light.

Is a straight line through bent space still a
straight line? :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Cecil

It was Richard Feynman who 'proved' that light always travels by the most
direct route (i.e. a straight line) between two objects. In doing that, he
also managed to 'prove' that light took every other possible route too and
by mutual interference between all the possible paths, arrived at the
shortest route. Light travels by the most direct route even through curved
space. Our perception that the light has been bent is apparently due to
deficiencies in the way we see the universe. At least that's what I think
the theory says. His proof is ingenious and somewhat counter intuitive. As
he won a Nobel prize for this sort of stuff, I'm not inclined to argue.

Mike G0ULI