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Logically why would light move faster in vacuum than in a solid? *

light cannot travel in vacuum; it needs a medium to travel in just like mechanical waves
this is incorrect, light moves faster in a solid
in a solid light gets absorbed by atoms before coming out the other side
there's nothing for light to bounce off of in vacuum

Logically why would light move faster in vacuum than in a solid? * light cannot travel-example-1

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Answer:

The light moves the fastest in a solid because there are move particles and with more particles they are closer together than in a liquid or gas. A vacuum has no particles with no particles there is nothing to transfer the light.

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