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by westurner 633 days ago
"Distorted crystals use 'pseudogravity' to bend light like black holes do" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38008449 :

"Deflection of electromagnetic waves by pseudogravity in distorted photonic crystals" (2023) https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.0... :

> We demonstrate electromagnetic waves following a gravitational field using a photonic crystal. We introduce spatially distorted photonic crystals (DPCs) capable of deflecting light waves owing to their pseudogravity caused by lattice distortion