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But wouldn't you have to conclude / assume that light is affected by gravity? Was that well-known at that time?
by wyldfire 3y ago
But wouldn't you have to conclude / assume that light is affected by gravity? Was that well-known at that time?
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- tsimionescu 3y agoNewton introduced the corpuscular theory of light, in modern terms saying that light is made of tiny particles. Once you have that, it becomes natural to think that light is probably attracted by gravity just like everything else is. The wave theory of light came quite a bit later, in Maxwell's time.