this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
17 points (81.5% liked)

Physics

1332 readers
14 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
17
Distorted crystals use 'pseudogravity' to bend light like black holes do (www.livescience.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What's the actual connection to gravity? Lots of things bend light, such as differences in the density of the medium. If I recall correctly, this one uses lots of little pockets of different density to bend the light? But I could be misremembering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The absolute state of science reporting these days 🤦.