why light is faster than sound
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Light doesn't need a medium to travel. The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second. It's faster through water, and it's even faster through steel. Light will travel through a vacuum at 300 million meters per second
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According to Einstein's Special Relativity, the speed of light has a unique status: it's a fundamental feature of our Universe, representing the maximum speed at which information can travel from place to place. As such, nothing can match the 300,000km/s achieved by light travelling through a vacuum – least of all sound, which being waves of compression and expansion in a substance doesn’t even exist in a vacuum.
Example : Lightning. You see the lightning first and then hear the thunder.
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