You mean if I drop my cell phone I take down the cell towers? You will have to do better Spotlight.
So the alcohol travels from the cell phone back through the air to the cell towers and makes the towers drunk. OkeeDokee.
Have you ever been drunk Frank? It is more than a breakdown in body coordination, it affects you. The you that you attribute to the self, the consciousness, the soul itself becomes uninhibited and loses good judgement. Why is that Frank?
and then Frank switches to rambling mode and discusses starlight
Hey Frank you know they already know how light is affected by gravity. It can bend its path and it can red shift its frequency but is does not affect its speed.
Before you bring it up and waste another post, a black hole does not stop light via gravity pulling back on its direction of travel but by gravity bending spacetime so much that beneath the event horizon all directions point back in on itself.
If there is something to be discovered about anything that is currently unknown that can affect starlight science is indeed open to it. It is not restricted in any way as you suggest. It just does not waste time speculating on things that are not presently observed or inferred to exist from other observations.
And I can imagine things as well as you can. But I don't hang the meaning of my life upon whether what I imagine might be real or not like you seem to do.
But I wonder if we will ever have the same amazement looking at the stars we had before all of this research.
Yes I am quite certain that the stars were much more amazing to contemplate when the ancients considered them to be tiny lights affixed to the solid dome over a flat earth that could in principle fall to the earth (confusing stars with meteorites).

Kolob’s set time is “one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest” (Abraham 3:4). I take this as a round number. - Gee