Originally Posted by
cmind
It doesn't matter what you see. To the light beam, what matters is the spacetime in its immediate vicinity, which is flat according to GR (differentiability of spacetime). When you look at light bending around a black hole, you're watching an event that is causally disconnected from you, and more importantly, you are causally disconnected from it. Meaning your observations can't have any effect on the event itself. If you were close enough to be causally connected, you would see the light moving in a straight line at speed c.
I think you're a good example of why kids shouldn't be taught general relativity before they fully understand special relativity. You're extremely confused because you don't have a grasp of the basics and you're diving into black hole physics, which is a huge step up from SR.
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