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Yes there is. Your shadow is the simplest evidence that light travels in straight line.
A solar eclipse is also evidence that light travels in straight lines, as is the fact that you cannot see around corners unless you use a mirror.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoI can't really think of any "evidence" of this that isn't trivially obvious. Take an object. Put something in between you and the object. Can you still see it? Then light must travel in a straight line.
However... in fact, light does not travel in a straight line, it travels along a geodesic path, which ordinarily happens to be very, very close to a straight line. Near very massive objects, though, geodesics are not even close to straight lines.
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∙ 11y agothe light travels in a straight line becauise it is going straight on to you object what you are looking at.
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∙ 13y agoNo, it cannot. It travels as a wave
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What helps to show light rays travel in straight lines?
To remember this think of you are looking directly at a building a car crash happens behind this building. You know this from the sound produced that can travel in all directions past the building. You cannot see it because as light dose not bend under normal circumstances and will only travel in straight lines. Even if reflected using a combination of mirrors it still travels in straight lines.
Do light rays travel in straight lines?
Theoretically they doNot theoretically, they do travel in waves.See my answer here:Do_light_waves_travel_in_straight_paths_called_rays
What is the speed of Light from New York to Tokyo?
Light cannot travel from New York to Tokyo, at least not without a seriously large number of mirrors, since light travels in nominally straight lines.
What are the meaning of straight lines?
Light travels in a straight line. The path of light can be bent by very massive objects because they actually bend space.
Who discovered that light travels in straight line?
Ibn al-Haytham (965 in Basra - c. 1040 in Cairo) a Muslim scientist, proved that rays of light travel in straight lines, and carried out various experiments with lenses, mirrors,refraction, and reflection. He was also the first to reduce reflected and refracted light rays into vertical and horizontal components, which was a fundamental development in geometric optics.Book of Optics.(Ibn al-Haytham)
Does light always travel in straight lines?
yes
Materials through which light can travel in straight lines are?
Transparent
Why do light rays travel in straight lines?
It does not, it travels as a wave
What direction does light travel in straight direction or wonky direction?
NORTHAmended answerLight travels in straight lines.
How can light travel in straight lines?
Light travels faster than air. Its beam are straight so that it travels through holes.
Does color travel in waves?
No it doesn't. Sound travels in waves, but light tavels in straight lines.
How does light travel in straight lines and in waves?
Yes..according to rectillinear propagation of light must travell in straight line...it also travells in the form of wave
Why can you not see round corners?
All electromagnetic radiation from VHF and higher frequencies (including visible light) travels only in straight lines. However these frequencies will reflect off certain surfaces, one surface that visible light reflects off is a mirror, which if properly arranged can be used to see around corners.
In what direction does light travel?
It travels in straight lines, However light cannot pass through walls, such as sound.
How does light rays always travel?
In straight lines (well, "geodesic" might be a better term), and at the speed of light in the medium they're in.
What helps to show light rays travel in straight lines?
To remember this think of you are looking directly at a building a car crash happens behind this building. You know this from the sound produced that can travel in all directions past the building. You cannot see it because as light dose not bend under normal circumstances and will only travel in straight lines. Even if reflected using a combination of mirrors it still travels in straight lines.
Does fire travel in straight lines?
no
