2007-03-02 07:27:03 · 9 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The word "space" is used to describe many things in language; it can be "somewhere" you put something, a distance between 2 objects, or, as in your question, a medium through which light travels.
'Space' is considered to be a 'dimension', just like time. It does not exist of itself, it is a measurement, or a concept that we use to describe where events take place. Without using these words, it would be virtually impossible to communicate with each other.
Light itself could not exist if there were no dimension for it to exist in.
When it is said that light travels at 186,282 miles per second in a VACUUM, or in the vacuum of space in this instance, it refers to the fact that there are no particles of anything to slow it down in that space. (by the way, it can't go faster either; that is the defining "speed limit" of our universe.) Even air is not a vacuum, as it contains atoms of many elements in it.
So what you heard said does not make sense if you think about it ~ if there is no dimension for something, say light, to exist in, then as I said, it wouldn't exist either......
2007-03-02 08:38:51 · answer #1 · answered by kathjarq 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any two locations are separated by space and light could travel between these two areas,if you remove the space between them they are in contact with each other,light would have nowhere to go.
2007-03-02 07:39:36 · answer #2 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the component of the creation account in Genesis isn't God's literal voice. The emphasis is that it replaced into God, and easily God, that created each and every little thing. Having at present escaped from Egypt, that's a polytheistic society, the Israelites had started to incorporate some Egyptian myths into their concept gadget. the main substantial component Moses replaced into making replaced into to tell apart that in simple terms God created the worldwide as adversarial to different gods and goddesses the Egyptians worshipped.
2016-10-02 06:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there is no space, i don't think there would be time. therefore if there is no time, how can you measure it's travel speed? you can't to travel you need space, or do you???
2007-03-02 07:31:18 · answer #4 · answered by calle trece 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then light would not have to travel anywhere. It would already be there.
2007-03-02 07:30:50 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No time no mater no light.
http://groups.google.com/group/neat-astronomy?hl=en
2007-03-02 09:34:03 · answer #6 · answered by chase 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the light would remain where photons were emitted
2007-03-02 07:48:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a black hole, a singularity
2007-03-02 07:30:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I AM THEREFOR I AM
2007-03-02 07:39:32 · answer #9 · answered by Craig C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋