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Originally Posted by MJA Thanks Everyone for you imput, You all must have great faith in science to believe in the theories you've been taught. I have none. To get back to the question of star light being affected or bent by another star, namely the Sun; how does gravity in Einstein's Theory of General Relativity possibly affect a photon of zero rest mass while at the same time expelling it's own to the speed of 186,000 MPS? Or how does the Sun's gravity pull something with zero mass, and at the same time push or propel zero mass? How does the sun move nothing? Can you lean against a wall that has zero rest mass? Thanks again? = MJA

Basically, you have to forget that gravity is a force. General relativity states that gravity is the curvature of spacetime. A massive body (like the sun) curves spacetime, then any photon passing the sun will travel in this curved spacetime, according to the principle of least action (it takes the quickest path). Necessarily, this path is curved, hence light can be bent. Note that light travels on what is called a geodesic, the curved space analogue of a straight line.