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Here is major reason that EM radiation needs to travel without medium: between the Earth and the Sun is considered a vacuum, therefore if EM radiation needed a medium to propagate then we would not receive the light from the sun, thereby ceasing alot of vital processes that occur on Earth as a result of interaction with light.

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