If light is a wave, what is its medium?

Subject: If light is a wave, what is its medium?

Date: Mon Apr 13 10:42:51 1998
Posted by Chris Goff
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: Colegio Roosevelt
City: Lima State/Province: No state entered.
Country: Peru
Area of science: Physics
ID: 892482171.Ph

Message:


My understanding of waves is that it is a 
movement of energy across a medium.  Light 
has properties of particles (effect of 
gravity, etc.), and that of waves.  What is 
the medium of light?

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