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Are we looking at our own sun when we stare up at the milky way? are we really viewing orbiting Electromagnetic Radiation that has taken many light years to orbit our Galaxy? does this orbiting electromagnetic radiation theory already exist?

2006-08-28 13:19:47 · 7 answers · asked by treb67 2 in Science & Mathematics Physics

light is a small part of what we know as electromagnetic radiation, the sun is also falling towards the middle of our galaxy, that would mean that all energy emitted from our sun is falling.

2006-08-28 13:34:54 · update #1

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E/M waves don't "orbit" Very Large masses. They just travel in a straight line in circles around the object.

Basically, light doesn't bend, the fabric of spacetime does; it wraps itself around large masses (black holes, O type stars). Our star is not very massive- it just bends the path of light a little. The "rotation" just appears to be so because we are looking into "bent" spacetime.

I'm not quite sure what you are asking in your question. Are you asking if some of the stars are just "images" of the sun, traces of its previous radiation, flung out into the galaxy? If so, no.

E/M waves don't orbit the galaxy in quite the way matter does. They obey different laws. They are affected by mass, yes, but not like planets are.

You may want to think about it a minute and repost the question with different wording.

2006-08-28 14:12:11 · answer #1 · answered by Rachel S 2 · 0 0

Orbiting light? I don't really understand what you mean by this term but if light orbited around a very massive object (large mass not large size) then how would see it as the light would going around the object, not out towards us and light wouldn't reflect of the orbiting light. Black holes may be able to bend light enough to make it orbit but the light would need to enter the gravity well at the perfect angle otherwise it would bend around or spiral into the centre but we would still be unable to see it As for a falling Sun and falling light I thought the universe was still expanding and therefore nothing was "falling". The Sun is moving but not at anything like the speed of light

2006-08-28 19:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by xpatgary 4 · 0 0

Not a bad question, but watch the definitions. For example, a light-year is not a unit of time. Also, a theory is a hypothesis for which significant supporting scientific evidence has been presented and reviewed, so that it has general acceptance. Yours is a hypothesis.

Light might be able to stably orbit at the event horizon of a black hole, but would only be deflected by less massive gravity wells.

A related question is why isn't the night sky white? Edgar Allen Poe actually helped solve that one.

2006-08-28 13:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by SAN 5 · 0 0

specific, it is attainable for gentle from a huge call to orbit a black hollow and return to itself. If we've been to look interior the path of the galaxy's significant black hollow, we ought to consistently have the capacity to work out a distorted photograph of the sunlight, whether it would seem to be 60000 gentle years away and as a result may be very faint (and it would look lots like the different great call that we'd probable have hardship determining it grow to be us). i do no longer think of there are any black holes close sufficient to grant us a picture of ourselves which may be seen with the bare eye.

2016-10-01 00:44:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Electromagnetic Radiation is not visable

2006-08-28 13:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0 1

In deed it does not orbit large masses. It get deflected bye them

2006-08-28 13:24:11 · answer #6 · answered by g0rdz00 1 · 1 1

I suppose it would if it does, but it doesn't.

2006-08-28 13:21:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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