When light travels through a vacuum should there be a fabric of some sort that causes light to behave like a wave?
2007-03-08 09:59:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You're not the first to ask this question.The lack of a good answer only serves to reinforce the theory the light acts as both a wave AND a particle,depending on how it's behavior is observed.
2007-03-08 10:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by Danny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People used to think that this fabric was called the Ether. However it was proved that there was no such thing and waves can travel without anything other than space to move in.
2007-03-08 10:08:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and that's what's weird about light. It behaves as a wave, even though there is no medium.
Also it's weird because it behaves as a particle, though it has no mass.
2007-03-08 10:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by The Tridentine Avenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It used to be believed that there was some kind of medium, the so called aether
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
2007-03-08 10:04:59 · answer #4 · answered by rg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
2007-03-08 10:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by other_user 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋