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OpenStudy (anonymous):

"Pythagoras believed that light consisted of beams and that these beams came from a person's eyes in straight lines. Sight occurred when these beams touched the objects a person was looking at. This is a correct theory and it is how we see objects today." true or false?

OpenStudy (caozeyuan):

False, light is reflected by the object seen and reaches eye which sends signals to the brain and form the image

OpenStudy (joannablackwelder):

Also, light is a wave and does not move in straight lines.

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