So if earths gravity is pulling in light from the sun ; how come we can't see light in between.?

Question

If light is a wave and a photon then we should be able to see th light in between the earth and the sun shine.

Answer 1

Light travels at a specific speed and we can't see it until it arrives.  It takes 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Answer 2

partly bcuz the angle is very small, partly bcuz the sun's own light obscures anything we might see (the first real test of this was during a total solar eclipse), and partly bcuz our eyes see light as travelling in straight lines, no matter what happens to it. this is how mirrors work.

Answer 3

light has no mass so Earth's gravity isn't pulling it in at all, though light passing by Earth might curve slightly around the "depression" Earth makes in Space-Time.

The sun emits light equally in all directions.  Generally though there is little in space for it to reflect off of, so we don't see space.  Like when sun shines through the air on Earth.  Since it passes through the air, we can't see air.  But when it reflects off a rock, we see the rock.  Likewise, if sunlight could pass through your body as easy as through air or empty space, you would be invisible.

Hope that helps

Answer 4

You can see the source of light, like the sun, and the light reflected off objects like every object that you see.. But you don't see the light as it travels from the sun to the earth, until the light hits something.

But I'm not a science guy so if someone comes up with a better answer I won't quibble.

Answer 5

gravity doesn't pull light, if it did then the big bang never happened.

Answer 6

I don't know, but your concept of gravity affecting light is right-on.  Science can compute 'how much' by observing and calculating how light bends during lunar eclipses, but the light would hit earth anyway.  What 'other' light are you referring to?

Answer 7

It's like shining a flashlight. You can't see the beam unless it bounces off of something.

Answer 8

It's the same reason why you can't see sound; they are both  forms of energy.  Yes, light consists of photons, but they are just what make up energy, not matter. It is matter - solid, liquid, gas, plasma - that we see, not energy.  

Really, we don't actually ever see "light" at all, ever.  We see light REFLECTING off objects and into our eyes.  In the end, we see the OBJECTS, but not the light itself.  To look at it another way, light is what helps us see, but isn't an actual THING that we can see.  

The only time that I can think of that we actually do 'see' light is when you see a rainbow, and that's only because matter is throwing white light in all different directions and splitting it, and it hits our eyes and we see it.  

Also, while gravity does affect light, the Earth doesn't necessarily "pull" light towards it.  Light travels in straight lines, and the sun distributes light in all directions.  It just goes the way it goes.  Just so you know [-: