Gravitational lensing and general relativity as i understand it says that all objects with mass bend and warp space and light around them. And so i thought about how that works with the moon and if using something as large as a planet to reflect such a light source would amplify or even simply...
Not the reflection of the moon's light, rather i meant the sunlight that is bent around the moon in space.
I'm thinking of it as if a mirror in space is positioned as if the earth is during a solar eclipse and that is directed toward the lightcraft. Again I know nothing, thank you for the...
I dont know much and you can dumb it down as much as you like or not. I've recently gotten very curious about light propulsion and i was reading that if a laser or beam of light was directed at a solar sail it could generate mass amounts of energy and be used to travel to deep(er) space. I was...