In other methods of concentrating light, the photons are absorbed and then emitted in a direction so that the photons converge upon a point. If we use gravitational lensing to concentrate light, are the photons not being absorbed and re-emitted?
Edit: By the way, another interpretation of Feynman diagrams is that photons are bouncing off of the electrons of the atoms of the lenses, rather than being absorbed and re-emitted. In that case, the question becomes "in gravitational lensing, do photons interact with any discrete particle in order to be concentrated"?
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