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Does Light Travel in Straight Line?

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Pick the only wrong statement in the following :

A

Light travels with a speed greater than that of sound

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Light cannot travel through vacuum

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Light travels in a straight line

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Light is a wave motion

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Solution

The correct option is B Light cannot travel through vacuum
Light travels through vacuum for sure as it does not need a material medium for its propagation. Sunlight is the biggest example for this.
Moreover, light has maximum speed in vacuum ,that is, $3 \times 10^{8}$ .

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