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Does light travel though a medium in a straight cor curved line?
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∙ 13y ago
Line travels in straight lines, under the principle of least time, aka Fermat's Principle. Light can be refracted at the boundary between two media meaning the path is bend but both parts of the path remain straight lines. Technically, light follows a space-time geodesic which might be curved, but locally this is too small to detect.
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