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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 7:25 pm
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Originally Posted by BigLar
...and you are wrong.

The curvature of the light beam due to the gravitational mass of the earth would be extremely negligible. It would just toodle on off into space.

Even if the Earth had the mass of the Sun (which is the experiment Eddington performed to verify General Relativity), the curvature of the light beam would still require pretty delicate instruments to detect it.
And I really dont think the OP was talking about the curvature of space-time
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