Light slows down when it hits the atmosphere and bends.
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Nature's Lens: How Gravity Can Bend Light Like a Telescope
https://www.space.com/39999-how-gravitational-lenses-work.html
no gawd about it.
By slowing down do you mean the distance is longer and the speed remains the same or the speed slows down also. ie light is going a certain speed and it reflects off your face and that slows it down a certain amount to when that light reaches your face again it is going even slower?? I don't buy that at all, . . . sorry.
Not sure what God has to do with the topic. Being immortal and beings in the universe are also immortals means the universe and earth are less that 100 hours old before the garden was shut down. How about the earth was a ball of liquid magma 4BYA and the matter that is in the universe today started to be gathered 40BYA and the 'bang' was 15BYA. Using some numbers from the Bible the earth being melted would be 3.5BY from when the 1,000 year reign starts. That works out to 360,000 of our years in that version. The Bible's version has the 24 Elders having close to 2,000 years of being taught about the Kingdom of God, the people alive at the start of the 1,000 years has that and when the GWT is happening they are inside New Jerusalem for another 1,000 years since 'Judgment Day' is a 'full day'. Then people are free to set up their home in the universe as that is the New Earth. The Book if Enoch has lots of visions about what the realm of the angels is like. We should be able to 'track them' when we get there. As such the vision inspired by those trips should be God's version of what the new earth will look like. So far I am unaware of any pics or vids that are accurate representations of the words written down.
The people that are resurrected for the 1,000 years are all done within a few hours. The start of the new earth is supposed to include all flesh that was ever conceived on this earth. That could all be done in 100 hours as the people will all be alive already and they just need to step out if the City to be in their new home. That isn't in the book, the time part, who gets resurrected at that time is.
When you read an article like this does anything 'stand out' as being 'true or false' as far as following 'what is reasonable' and what is obviously 'snake oil', sounds good but has no real scientific foundation. (such as gravity bending light rather than the light shed by itself is being reflected by some 'ice' that is acting the same way that is the cause of 'sun-dogs' and 'moon-dogs' as witnessed from the surface of the earth. Here is an example of what I mean.
Space-time can bend, flex and warp under the influence of mass and energy, and it's this rugged geometry that gives us the force of gravity.
Gravity exists anytime two pieces of matter get within a certain distance of each other. Positive and negative charges are parameters, nothing is flexing and warping.
I don't think we even have enough real data to say there is a black hole at the center when the path the stars are taking seem rather lazy when the gravity is so strong light can't even escape. If our speed is known and we can tell how much the solar system weighs the ratios should show a path that we would follow as we got closer the path should get closer to being a straight line into the core. If the core is very hot mass will be trying to expand and that always overcomes gravity. It would be like the core of the earth having so much force on the atmosphere that it was pulled past the 'crust'.
And nothing knows how the difficulty of that terrain better than light itself. Forced to follow every hill, valley, bump and wrinkle in the universe, light's path is constantly jostled back and forth as it tries, in vain, to follow a straight and narrow path.
When that happens we call that diffused lighting, not even shadows exist. When there is nothing in focus it would be like looking at stars during a cloudy night and then writing a paper about how much you learned.
Why not use out own sun to show that the stars that go behind it have their light sucked into the sun faster than if the light was not bent.
The presence of a nearby massive object will deflect light from its original path. Even though the photon, the carrier of light and the electromagnetic force, has no mass of its own, the influence of gravity is universal.
Gravity now acts on more that just mass, what a crock of shit, lol.
Once that space-time terrain is shaped, everything in the universe must work to navigate the geometry.
Once the check clears we'll say anything if it means another check is coming.
Perhaps the most visually striking example of this effect is the curious phenomenon of gravitational lensing, in which a massive object can … well, act like a lens. This effect can bend the path of light to such a supreme degree that background objects take on a fun-house mirror appearance, their images distorted to the point that they're almost unrecognizable.
Total science, that is why finding one is such a rare event. The lights you can see inside the ring seem to be in focus, why are they not distorted?
By pure coincidence, the base of a typical wineglass is a good approximation to the gravitational lensing behavior of a simple, (relatively) small, spherical object like a star. If you look through a (hopefully empty) wineglass at the room around you — and you may want to do this sober so it makes more sense — you'll see a very distorted picture. If you point the wine glass straight at an object, you'll see the object stretched into a ring surrounding the center of the glass's base. In less extreme cases, you'll see arcs or the same image repeated on multiple sides of the base.
Maybe not, maybe they are the very same principle, just like water vapor can cause a mirage on the earth. Ice in space, such as when out oceans biol away in one event are blown into deep space rather than being sucked into the sun. The opposite happens at the core of every galaxy that exists though.
When we look deep into the universe, sometimes we come across a chance alignment. Something truly massive, like a giant cluster of galaxies, will lie in front of many unassociated background galaxies. The light from the distant background must follow the twisted and warped gravitational path set by the cluster, and the result is a curiously beautiful set of images. Like looking through a giant wine glass, we'll see multiple images of the same galaxy, bent in long thin arcs, odd blobs and sometimes even perfect rings.
The circular pattern is caused by the light that is visible in the center of the circle of light.
These warped and distorted images give us important clues about the contents of the cluster — the massive object between us and the background that's providing enough gravity to make a decent lens. By comparing the grotesque images of the galaxies behind the cluster to normal galaxy images, we can build a fairly reliable estimate of the mass of the big cluster. We can even estimate how that mass is distributed within the cluster.
From photo to artistic inspired picture. Fact and fiction is the real change going on.
It is science fiction from there, if you see something I missed point it out.