Light has a speed of 299,792,458 m/s, according to rigorous scientific analysis, and this figure is said to be a constant, regardless of the fact that light can be, "diffracted" , [see tungamiraimashoracountingnumbers.blogspot.com/2012/03/question-of-faith.html ] AND despite the fact that if it bends then the speed will be affected.
This constant (light-speed) is the yardstick that is used to determine just how distant everything is, how many billions of years light has taken to travel from one galaxy to the other...of course without allowing for such things like 'Black holes' from which light can not escape, or even...silly me, the weird picture one gets when one looks at the half-moon many nights, kind of like how light is 'bending' to follow the shape of the moon. What do they call that? ...umbra... penumbra?
Those lines from the sun which explain how the umbra and penumbra are formed that you see there? Ignore those. Ask your self this; what would happen if small magnets that were traveling at high speed...let us assume they were repelling each other but were somehow moving too fast to deflect each other out of the way...what would happen if some of these were knocked off by some obstacle; and the rest suddenly found themselves without resistance on one side? Would the magnets not move around the object, curving towards the less resistant side? Think about it. I am not saying that this is what happens to light, but what if light is formed of small physical things? After all despite high-sounding words to the contrary, nobody even knows what light is, and no one can really tell anyone else what magnetism is even though there are important looking equations that seem to tell one otherwise...
If light bends around objects, how can its speed be constant, and WHO says there is no speed greater than that of light?
