Light
Whenever you see your shadow upon the pavement you have proof that light travels in straight lines. Whether it is from sun or street lamp light falls upon the roadway and illuminates it. But some of the light meets your body, and since you are "opaque" and cannot be "shone through," the bit of road just behind or before you falls at once into shadow. If light could travel in curves it would pass round you and light everything equally so that there would be no such thing as a shadow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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92Light New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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