Tuesday, July 7, 2015

general relativity - If curved paths imply that the vehicle is accelerated, how come do we assume that light gets curved whilst its speed is constant?


I don't understand how we can accept these two sentences at the same time:





  1. Light speed is constant, therefore experiences no acceleration.




  2. On the presence of a gravitation field, light path is curved (which would mean that somehow it gets accelerated).






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