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This may sound like a/is really a stupid question
| *on my back. (what a stupid idiot, me)
| light is affected by gravity but it's very minimal, it would fly into space
if you could, then you could also theoretically see your back if you just looked (it would be very small though)
| >>412653 so the light would bent then? What about, instead of light, you use a VERY POWERFUL TELESCOPE?
| >>412672 light is affected by gravity but the earth doesn't have enough gravity to bend the light all the way around it
| >>412672
You need a very fucking strong gravity well to bend light, something like a black hole. Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to bend light, what can happen is that the atmosphere can slightly refract light, but that's it.
| >>412672
Well, a powerful telescope is just a magnifying instrument that receives light, and you're able to see this light.
If light has no mass, it can't fall. Gravity does not make it fall, but it's actually shorter in time for light to travel NOT STRAIGHT. That's why we say it bends.
Earth is not dense enough to make light noticeably bend in this manner. Be it the light you project with a laser, or receive in your eyes, it does not follow the curvature of the planet.
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| Lets say the Earth is a smooth sphere. No buildings or mountains and all that tall shit.
and then I try to shine a very, very, VERY BRIGHT RED LASER in a straight line, at a 90° angle relative to the smooth as chinaware floor
Will the laserbeam run straight (and out to the sideways sky) or will it go around, resulting in a red dot in my back?
Disregard the fact that light kind of spread out the further it goes.
>inb4 the earth is flat
fkoff