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Which travels faster sound or light?

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Light travel much faster than sound. Speed of light in a vacuum is 300 million meters per second, while speed of sound in air is about 340 meters per second. This causes for example a fairly known effect where sound of the thunder is reaching the observer several seconds after the lightning.

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