On 05/27/2010 09:34 AM, Cecil Moore wrote:
On May 27, 10:59 am, Bill wrote:
I am wondering how a wave, light, can be affected by a black hole as has
been seen by the Hubble space telescope. This goes deeply into the
nature of light it self, like how is a wave with no real mass affected?

Photons have mass because of their velocity (speed of light). m = E/
c^2 Photons have no rest mass but they are never at rest. An
experiment long ago proved Einstein to be correct when he claimed that
light was affected by gravity. A black hole is no exception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

Frankly physics has to go back to classical

How would classical physics explain how a single particle can go
through two slits at the same time and interfere with itself on the
other side? This phenomenon includes photons, electrons, and
apparently includes relatively massive Bucky Balls made up of many
carbon atoms.

How would classical physics explain how entangled particles remain in
instantaneous contact no matter how far apart they are? This seems to
violate the spirit (if not the letter) of the speed-of-light limit.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

I probably should not have breached the subject since it will be a war
of opinions. If light was indeed a particle (photon) it could be
affected, but light is just really super high frequency radio in nature.
Radio is not particulate so why the hang-up over photons???
Bill Baka