Discuss how a photon (aka the light particle) can be affected by gravity despite being massless.

Physics

1 answer:

Over [174]3 years ago

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Explanation:

Light is clearly affected by gravity, just think about a black hole, but light supposedly has no mass and gravity only affects objects with mass. On the other hand, if light does have mass then doesn't mass become infinitely larger the closer to the speed of light an object travels.

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