Re: Photon bend another photon


"Danny Dot" <don't.mail.me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I am a lowly engineer in aerospace, but have taken a few advanced physics
| questions.
|
| My question is, if two photon's pass really, really, really close to each
| other -- will their paths be changed by one interaction with the gravity
of
| the other.

No.
Photons are not billiard balls, although they share some things in common,
such as momentum. What makes a photon different is that they can pass
right through each other. That isn't so strange, though, they can pass
right through glass too, a billiard ball cannot.
Androcles


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