Straight Line Are For Buildings, does light travel in a straight line ?

thinking like light i would much rather travel in the easiest way possible. If this is so there is no possible way to tellthe distance of how far the sun is away
through our atmosphere
If light is not traveling in a straight line then it could not be constant light is lazy

Light travels in a hyperspatial circle. One hemi-circle of future and one of past.

what the hell is a hemi circle ?
are we getting the future half or the past half?

Light does always travel in straight lines - but it turns at angles. It never curves. When we see it "curving", it is traveling in straight lines in space-time (4-D space).

By AWT every energy wave is the diffusional wave, which is leveling the Aether density gradient. It doesn't means, the ligth is always moving along straight path by constant speed, though (note the animation of the gravitational lensing below). It depends on our definition of space and/or observational perspective.

Zephir,

Your depiction of space-time curvature is backwards. The curvature should go inward.

It should look like this:


Which by the way, Space time curvature conflicts what we can observe in gravitational lensing. According to special relativity light travels in a straight line through space-time. Which would mean as light approaches a massive body it would curve as it travels through space-time. But as it reaches the other side of the massive object its space-time is curved back towards flat space-time. The light would have to travel along that space-time curvature path as well, resulting in what would appear as no gravitational lensing effect.

Gravitational lensing can not be produced by space-time curvature.

Dale Wahl

Why not? It's just a more pronounced variant of relativistic aberration, i.e. the phenomena by which the space-time curvature was demonstrated first time.



As you can see, such illustration of space-time curvature is much close to my animation, then the picture of yours. The space-time curvature is the classical optical effect, resulting from passing of light through volume area of dense vacuum near the massive body - so it should be illustrated as a refraction.

maybe light travels in the same way lightning does. I should have put that in the topic sentence

The simulation of light path spreading through large volume of Universe filled by the dark matter.

so it does travel in the same way as lightning

Not se exactly: the light prefers the more dense places for its spreading, while the lightning just avoids them.

Idiotware, as usual:

Everything moves in straight lines, inertia, unless affected by something that causes a change of direction. If motion is not in a straight line look for the cause of the change.

i think that in nature nothing travels in a straight unless something make it travel in a straight line. Something man made perhaps

Guest_Landon

Why would you think something that has no basis in reality? Every observation shows objects travel in straight lines, that includes waves, unless acted on by an external force.

Maybe it is just fun to deny reality.