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      • In empty space, the wave does not dissipate (grow smaller) no matter how far it travels, because the wave is not interacting with anything else. This is why light from distant stars can travel through space for billions of light-years and still reach us on earth.
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      Does Light Travel Forever? | Physics Van | Illinois

  2. www.livescience.com › physics-mathematics › particleIs light a particle or a wave? - Live Science

    18 hours ago · According to Sapienza, this isn't the right question to be asking. "Light is not sometimes a particle and sometimes a wave," he said. "It is always both a wave and a particle. It's just that we ...

  3. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesLight Waves - BBC Bitesize

    Unlike a sound waves, light waves do not need a medium to pass through, they can travel through a vacuum. Light from the Sun reaches Earth through the vacuum of space. A short video...

  4. www.sciencing.com › light-travel-4570255How Does Light Travel? - Sciencing

    Apr 24, 2017 · Light always takes the shortest path between a source and destination. A line drawn from the source to the destination, perpendicular to the wave-fronts, is called a ray. Far from the source, spherical wave fronts degenerate into a series of parallel lines moving in the direction of the ray.

  5. van.physics.illinois.edu › ask › listingDoes Light Travel Forever? | Physics Van | Illinois

    In contrast, light waves can travel through a vacuum, and do not require a medium. In empty space, the wave does not dissipate (grow smaller) no matter how far it travels, because the wave is not interacting with anything else.

  6. letstalkscience.ca › light-and-its-propertiesLight and Its Properties - Let's Talk Science

    • Waves of Light
    • Colours of Light
    • To Summarise

    These different colours of light have different wavelengths and frequencies. Red light has the longest wavelength, and the lowest frequency of the visible spectrum. Violet has the shortest wavelength, and the highest frequency of the visible spectrum.

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    Mixing coloured materials, such as paint, is an example of subtractive colour mixing. Red paint appears red to us because when white light strikes it, the red pigments reflect the red wavelengths of light and absorball of the wavelengths. This reflected light is what is seen by our eyes. The same is true for all of the other colours. So what about ...

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    Light travels very fast - at the speed of light in fact!
    Light travels as waves.
    Light travels in straight lines.

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  7. phys.libretexts.org › Courses › University_of2.1: Light as a Wave - Physics LibreTexts

    May 24, 2024 · Mathematics and experiments show that light is a transverse wave – the electric and magnetic field vectors point in directions that are perpendicular to the direction of motion of the light wave (and as it turns out, they also rare always perpendicular to each other).

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  9. www.universetoday.com › 83832How Does Light Travel? - Universe Today

    May 19, 2016 · Light actually “slows down” every time it has to travel through anything but a vacuum. Look up Cherenkov radiation to see what happens when light initially travels faster than it can...