Does light fall ?

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*edit* chicah just read your sig.

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Light will bounce off light coloured things (radiate) and darker things will absorb the light. :mrgreen::peace:
 
I don't know if it falls....persay but it definitely bends from gravitational fields. Such as when it travels around high mass objects such as black holes. On the other hand it does get sucked into black holes at a certain point so....i guess it falls.
 
Hey Kant, Happy New Year, welcome back. :mrgreen:
This really only happens in space though, where gravity plays with it. Otherwise light was no weight therefore not affected by gravity on earth. Just bounces off and around things and raditates all around us. :mrgreen::peace:

Kant said:
I don't know if it falls....persay but it definitely bends from gravitational fields. Such as when it travels around high mass objects such as black holes. On the other hand it does get sucked into black holes at a certain point so....i guess it falls.
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as a rule, light does not fall because gravity is not a strong enough force to pull it into the mass. the exception is the extreamly dense mass of a black hole where light, like anything else, falls into it if it passes thru the event horizon.

otherwise, light waves RADIATES from its source, and moves away fast enough to only be effected by gravity of large objects pulling on it.
 
FALL is a derivative or by product of GRAVITY... another concept contrive from a contrived theory...

So, if light does fall, then the THEORY of Gravity is broad enough, that it also explains the movement of LIGHT...

does light fall ?
 
But if light has no weight and is not affect by gravity (other than in space), how can it fall? Does it fall in space?:mrgreen::peace:
 
I know the speed of light is fast. So fast it can travel around the world 7 times in less then 1 sec. Also light is used to measure distances in space since it's so vast. As for falling well im sot sure. Have to agree with others when the say radiate or emit. But yes light does travel.

Hank.
 
Chiceh said:
But if light has no weight and is not affect by gravity (other than in space), how can it fall? Does it fall in space?:mrgreen::peace:
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Light has to have mass. Light has engergy, momentum and can exert a force. These proportes can't perpetuate with out a medium, much like sound can't perpetuate in space because there's no medium to vibrate. It's small but it's there and therefore it has a weight. As for falling, it does gravitate towards other mass. the only difference between space and and an atmosphere is the stuff. Gravity still works the same. Planets still draw light towards it. It can be bent and be reflected because it's running into other particals.
 
wow didnt think you guys would answer me...

but then again if you say light radiates that means it " floats " ?

thinking of what you were saying it needs something that absurbs it... that would be color, plants, water, evrything ^^

lol so it doesnt falls it floats, and has to be absurbd by something somewhere.... easy peasy ^^
 
Light does have some mass to it, but not enough to fall I guess. Good question though really, lol. Correct me if am wrong though as I am not a genius here, just really stoned. :mrgreen:
It more like bounces off things and raditates off others around us. The dark colours absorb the light such as black and dark blue etc. Do you remember the colour wheel from art class and learning about light prisms and shit, it all goes back to that. :mrgreen::peace:

DWR said:
wow didnt think you guys would answer me...

but then again if you say light radiates that means it " floats " ?

thinking of what you were saying it needs something that absurbs it... that would be color, plants, water, evrything ^^

lol so it doesnt falls it floats, and has to be absurbd by something somewhere.... easy peasy ^^
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Chiceh said:
But if light has no weight and is not affect by gravity (other than in space), how can it fall? Does it fall in space?:mrgreen::peace:
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although a quanta of light can act as a wave and a partical, it does not have mass. therefore light has no gravity itself but that is not to say it is not affected by gravity. warped spacetime skews the direction of a lightwave just as it would any object moving thru space.

the word 'fall' does not apply to anything in open space. that is an action reserved for celestrial bodys. a meteor can fall to earth. an object can fall into a black hole. a wave, partical or object moving in space is simply trying to travle in a straight line until its pathway is skewed by warped spacetime.
 
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