The FX in "TRON: Legacy" have an almost Einsteinian elegance: They infuse light with gravity.
Changes in the way the light moves comes from the way gravity bends the light as it travels from the quasar towards Earth.
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The technique uses distant light amplified by the gravity of a massive star or planet to create an astronomical magnifying lens.
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Einstein's launch into fame, which occurred when measurements made during a 1919 eclipse confirmed his prediction of how much gravity bends light, coincided with, and contributed to, the birth of a new celebrity age.
The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
There is, however, scope for new laws of gravity that affect light and heavy objects differently, or involve a modification of the concept of inertia.
Because gravity pulls on light as well as matter, when light passes by a heavy object it bends as though it is passing through a lens.
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That has a lot of implications about gravity, the constant speed of light, and various other issues including mass and what we could say about it.
Using gravitational microlensing, scientists are able to determine when the gravity of a large object alters the light coming from a star on its way to Earth.
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"Light coming toward us from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of a lump of matter in the middle, " explained Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh.
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If an object floating through space passes near the line of sight between the earth and a distant star, its gravity should, according to the theory of relativity, bend and focus the light from that star.
This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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The fastest thing in the universe is light, and the amount of time it takes a photon (in a vacuum, absent of gravity), to transit a planck is called planck-time.
As images and stories put us in awe of nature's destructive power, it may be worth a moment to marvel at the force of gravity that governs the behavior of all matter, from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain to light.
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"From Einstein's theory of gravity, that is his general relativity theory, we believe mass curves space and this can cause light to follow a curved path, " he told BBC News Online.
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