Light doesn't exist - it's all done by Gnomes ...... http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/P...l_about_Gnomes
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For Frankus' maths warOriginally Posted by Lixarto
Doesn't travel in a straight line owing to the curve in the space/time continuum
The model supposes that the gravity of massive objects causes space-time to be 'curved' in their vicinities. Light takes the shortest possible distance between its emitter and its destination, which, in the absence of gravity, will be a straight line. In the model of relativity gravity causes space-time to be curved so light travels along the geodesic of whatever valleys and peaks form along its path. However it is theoretically possible for space-time to be affected by gravity in such a way that local geodesic is a flat plane.
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I have wondered about this for decades.below the light?
...and why do the smaller flies go round in circles, while the big feckers head straight for the window and bounce off the glass?
Different survival strategies, I guess.
The light thing is a mis-firing of the genetic intruction to use a fixed point in the sky to navigate with.
Moths are the perfect demonstration - they have have eyes that effectively have straws coming off them (not true compound eyes). As the Moon is at optical infinity it is a good navigation aid - the moth just keeps the moon within a certain straw and that keeps ot straight.
Alas the moth's navigation system has developed over hundreds of thousands of years and artificial light is very recent.
So the moth sees a light, assumes it is the moon or sun and then keeps that image in the eye-straw. As the light is very close this causes the moth to follow a concentric circle until it flies into the flame.
So - the behaviour is not at all intentional, it is just a mis-firing of a genetic rule of thumb that still works perfectly well in the absence of artificial light.
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OK, but... flies do it in broad daylight with the light switched off!
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