Does light fall ?

closet.cult said:
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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although a quanta of light can act as a wave and a partical,

correction

although a quanta of light can be explained with wave and partical theory

right?

iloveyou
 
This question all depends on what perspective you want to land yourself with.

~Light falls because of gravity

~Light doesn't fall because it's not matter, therefore unaffected by gravity

~Nothing falls because everything, including directions, is perspective.

I mean whatever you wanna say man. It's all right.
 
light travels in the direction it is being emitted from... it has mass but it is not affected by gravity because of the speed it travels... u can test to see if light "falls" by turning a flash light on in pitch black... the light will travel till its no longer able to keep all the properties needed for it to actually be light... soo if light was able to fall... a flashlight emitting light at an angle would eventually arch like a rainbow if looked at from a side angle
 
Hiesman said:
light travels in the direction it is being emitted from... it has mass but it is not affected by gravity because of the speed it travels... u can test to see if light "falls" by turning a flash light on in pitch black... the light will travel till its no longer able to keep all the properties needed for it to actually be light... soo if light was able to fall... a flashlight emitting light at an angle would eventually arch like a rainbow if looked at from a side angle
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...Maybe it's just too cool for arching...:blsmoke:


lol. who knows...light=me can see :)
 
light travels in rays i keeps going the way it was emitting from for ever untill it hits something then it is reflected
 
By fall... if you mean like "freefall" on earth... then no....

I'm pretty sure it was proven decades ago that gravity does influence light. But that was out in space of course... nothing "local"

There are of course millions of arguments you can throw using different theories...

Oh yeah.. gravity is a theory eh... I guess science is all just a bunch of theories... just some theories are really really good or really really accurate.

my 2 cents I guess
 
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