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What is wave theory of light?

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Light is a distrubance from a source that travels as logitudinal mechanical waves through the either medium that was presured to pervade all space as mechanical wave requires medium for it propagation. The wave theory could successfully explain phenomena of reflection. refraction interferenc and diffraction of light.
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