why light don't need a medium to travel??
I know that it's a wave and particle nature both shows..
I know but sound is also a wave but still it needs a medium to travel and I think that particle also needs a medium for propogation....
so please tell why light don't need a medium to travel...??
I will mark you as brainlist..
as it shows both nature particle and wave and what I know that both needs a medium to travel as you can see example of sound it's also a wave and needs medium so please tell why light don't need a medium to travel???
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Explanation:
We know that light doesn't need a medium through which to travel because the speed of light is experimentally constant: independent of the movement of the source or detector or the direction in which it travels. Light contrasts with sound, which travels through the air (or some other material medium)
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the speed of light is experimentally constant: independent of the movement of the source or detector or the direction in which it travelsyou’re stationary with respect to the air, then the speed of sound is the same in all directions. But if you’re moving with respect to the air, the speed of sound will be the same in all directions relative to the air—which means that sound coming up in front of you will seem faster and sound catching up to you from behind will seem slower.
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But light never does—its speed is the same under all circumstances. So it does you no good to postulate an aether. You can still do it, but it makes the theory more complicated than necessary. The only reason to postulate an aether is that you’re uncomfortable with the idea of waves not needing a medium. But our modern understanding of quantum mechanics is that all kinds of particles have a wavelike nature, so, if you accept that matter can travel through empty space, you should have no problem accepting the same for light.