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Mickey Farley
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I am a student of physics at a local Junior College in Mendham NJ and am planning on transferring to a 4 year program at the University of Alabama in a year. Iam having a bit of a difficult time understanding general relativity. Why does a photon bend twice as much under a gravitational field compared to a test particle in Newtonian mechanics? I understand time dilation is a factor, but I would have thought the deviation would be proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance, not 2 times that. Doesn't this imply general relativity violates the inverse square law? Forgive my ignorance, for I am only trying to understand where terms like "inverse square law" and such fits in with modern physical models. Thanks