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a single stripe of light pretending it can travel forever in a straight line
means a narrow beam of light, heat, or other radiation traveling outward from a source, or the straight line geometry uses to model it.
from From Old French 'rai,' itself from Latin 'radius' — a staff, spoke, or beam — the same word that gives us 'radius' and 'radiate.' The Romans saw the spoke of a wheel and the shaft of light from the sun as the same shape: a straight line shooting out from a center. English softened 'rai' into 'ray' over the medieval centuries.
- geometry
- infinite in one direction, finite in the other
- electric kin
- the manta-shaped fish stuns with built-in batteries
- light speed
- a sunray takes eight minutes to reach you
- x-ray name
- x meant unknown, the rays a total mystery
- cosmic ones
- particles hitting Earth nearly at light speed
ray charles — blind american musician who revolutionized soul and country music, 1930-2004
stingray — venomous fish with barbed tail spine, found in oceans and rivers worldwide
manta ray — world's largest ray species, wing span up to 23 feet, found in tropical oceans