https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1012.1134/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40420463urn:hackerpapers:mention:1012.1134:40420463Mon, 20 May 2024 21:11:24 GMT<p>On a whim I looked up whether magnets or electric fields can refract light, and while they generally can&#x27;t, strong electric charges can: Edit: there&#x27;s probably no way to make an electric field strong enough on the macro scale to bend light, unless it passes by a black hole or magnetar, because the radius of the bending grows by 2nd power of charge but shrinks by the 4th power of distance from charge. But I&#x27;ll leave my work here in case anyone is curious. ---- See figure 1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09... Equation 48: delta y = -E*(a^2)*(Q^2)…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1012.1134/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-ph