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Q: What is light called that travels through empty space?
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What does light travel through best empty space or matter?

Light travels fastest through empty space.


What kind of wave is able to travel through both matter and empty space?

A type of wave that can travel through empty space as well as through matter is electromagnetic wave. Light travels fastest in empty spaces.


How does light travel through a window?

Light travels through two things: either empty space, or space which contains transparent materials. Some paterials are only partially transparent or translucent, in which case some light does travel through it, but not all the light will get through.


Why does light travel faster in empty spaces?

Light travels faster (up to the speed of light) in a vacuum, which is empty space. Light travels slower through a medium (matter).


What is it called when energy travels through empty space?

That is electromagnetic energy; radio waves, infra-red, light, ultra violet, x-rays etc.


What is an object called that lets some light through?

some light travels through=translucent


What items that resemble the path of light when it travels through space?

It travels in a straight line but also it travels through empty space ! 😅


What is it called when light travels through the lens of a telescope?

Refraction


When light is bent as it travels through an object it is called?

Refraction


Does light waves travel fastest through empty space?

Light waves, like all electromagnetic waves, travel without a medium, so they can travel through empty space. Sound waves, on the other hand, do require a medium to travel or propagate; therefore, they can not travel through empty space.


Describe how a light ray travels as it moves through empty space?

when light rays mave from one medium to another such as from air to water


What the material through which light travels?

Light travels though a medium called "space-time" and can also travel through transparent and translucent physical materials.