Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I'm not quite clear on what your question is... <br />Posted by derekmcd</DIV><br /><br /><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">I think what I'm trying to say is, on earth, we see a greater gravity affect from our sun then we do from the combined Milky Way. Meaning the entire milky way really isn’t causing that much of a warping of space time around the outside (the distances are too great), so gravity would be very low on the outside (nothing like it is here on earth). </font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">If gravity can warp space time enough to change the direction of a photon around a galaxy, should’nt we see some bending of a photon path as it passes by the sun or the earth, after all the gravity we feel here on earth would be a lot more than the gravity on the outside of a galaxy (where this lensing affect seems to take place).</font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">In the example I’ve drawn below there is a halo around the foreground galaxy, note that the foreground galaxy is completely masking the background galaxy, the only path for the photon to take is around the outside which is why we see the Einstein ring (I think its called).</font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3"> BG</font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">( G )</font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span> </span>E</font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Knowing all this (assuming I’ve got things right) <span>if this is the case, does light bend around our sun (or earth) noticeably, even just the smallest amount? Is this detectable?</span></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span>I guess there inst enough distance to see a notice the affect.</span></font></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#808080">-------------- </font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>Let me start out with the standard disclaimer ... I am an idiot, I know almost nothing, I haven’t taken calculus, I don’t work for NASA, and I am one-quarter Bulgarian sheep dog. With that out of the way, I have several stupid questions... </em></font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>*** A few months blogging can save a few hours in research ***</em></font></p> </div>