• june@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Light bends in space all the time. Our sun has enough gravity to bend light.

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      8 months ago

      I asked my good friend gravitational lensing about light in space, and they said that light can go and get bent

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      There is no perfect vacuum, even in deep space. In the space of our Solar System, there is on average 5 atoms in every cubic centimeter. In interstellar space, there is on average 1 atom every cubic centimeter. In intergalactic space, there is on average 1 atom every 100 cubic centimeters. It’s a gradient, but much like the perfectly straight lines and flat planes in the original question, perfect vacuum is a theoretical construct that is impossible to achieve in our reality.