question about gtravitational time dialation

[36grit]

Question about gravitational time dialation

 

Could one say that: as a light ray bends around a large body of mass that, the distance (space) between the photons stretches and/or bends towars the gravitationally massive object?

Edited September 22, 2011 by 36grit

[Schrödinger's hat]

Question about gravitational time dialation

 

Could one say that: as a light ray bends around a large body of mass that, the distance (space) between the photons stretches and/or bends towars the gravitationally massive object?

 

I don't quite understand the question.

Photons in a gravitational field will follow paths that we classically think of as curved if that's what you are asking.

[swansont]

It is my understanding that the length does differ if measured by someone not in the locally flat spacetime.