[TinyTree]

Reflections on mass:

Mass bends the space time continuum, affecting the curvature of space itself.

Mass can be converted into light, and radiation conveys inertia between two bodies.

Light moves along the space time curve in a straight line, although to an external observer this can appear bent because of the bend in the space time curvature.

So what happens when a massive object is emitting light rays? How does each individual photon affect the curvature of the space time which it itself flies through as it is emitted?

Is that space time curvature differential instantaneous does it propagate outwards faster than the speed of light, or is the change in space time curvature "flowing with the light itself", that is expanding with the light ray, but in all directions instead of just along the vector of the photon?

Do you see what I am getting at? The light emitted by a mass changes the mass of the object- thus affecting the curvature of the space time. What is the relationship here exactly?

If an object continuously emitted photons until it vanished, what would the behavior be of the gravitational well as it dissipated into nothing?