Gravitational Lensing

Unit 3 Cohesion

Gravitational Lensing

In Cartesian Physics, there are 2 kinds of refraction of starlight (gravitational lensing)

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Descartes explained that these are caused by the gravitational territories of stars and galaxies, and not by their mass or the matter within them.

In Cartesian Physics, there are 2 kinds of refraction of starlight (gravitational lensing):

  1. Galactic

  2. Stellar

Galactic Lensing

Stellar Lensing

The 1919 Eddington experiment is a stellar gravitational lensing.

Galactic gravitational lensing are the more common ones such as galaxy cluster Abell 1689.

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