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Gravitational Lensing 1.00

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity demonstrates that a large mass can deform spacetime and bend the path of light. So, a very massive object, such as a cluster of galaxies can act as a gravitational lens. When light passes through the cluster from an object lying behind it, the light is bent and focused to produce an image or images of the source. The image may be magnified, distorted, or multiplied by the lens, depending upon the position of the source with respect to the lensing mass. The characteristics of the gravitationally lensed image depend upon the alignment of the observer, the lens and the background object. If the alignment is perfect, the resulting image is an Einstein Ring. With this program, one can draw images to see the effect of gravitational lensing. You can easily test the effects of several parameters by changing them and redrawing the image.

This software is a commercial software. You will be able to download and test Gravitational Lensing during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version. The trial version available for download on www.softandco.com has a size of 75 KBytes. For additional information and support request, please contact directly Gravitational Lensing publisher.

Gravitational Lensing 1.00 was released by Wouter Dhondt on Monday 13 January 2003.

Gravitational Lensing will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.

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