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Under normal circumstances, no.
The speed of light in a vacuum is roughly 300,000,000 meters/second, while the speed of sound through air is 340 meters/second.
However light does not travel 3x109 m/s inside a medium, and recent experiments have shown there are ways to slow light down to a crawl. In such a medium, usually a crystal structure, sound could indeed travel faster than light.
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∙ 14y agoYes, Light travels faster than sound.
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Why you see light first then sound after?
light travel faster than sound. see in real life we see lightning first then we hear the thunder.
Why was light from the rocket seen before the sound of rocket was heard?
Because light travels significantly faster than sound. Speed of light (in vacuum) = 299 792 458 m/s Speed of Sound (at sea-level ) = 340.29 m/s
Does light travel faster than sound?
No. Sound is a conductive vibration that travels more slowly than light in any real-world environment. Sound travels at about 1,100 feet per second in air, and light travels at 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum and nearly as fast in air (although not as fast in glass, diamond, or other transparent solids). The large difference in speed is why you see a flash of lightning before you hear the thunder it creates. Sound is created by a wave that essentially pushes particles into the next particle. The speed of this wave is determined by the material it is traveling through. Something with high density and rigidity, such as steel, conducts a sound wave considerably faster than air (20,000 feet per second). If you were to have an object of infinitely high density and rigidity, sound could travel as faster as light. However, because it still boils down to the maximum velocity of the particles in the wave, it would not be able to exceed the speed of light.
Is lightning faster than wind?
Lightning (an electrical discharge) always travels faster than the speed of sound. Lightning moves at thousands of miles per second through the air. The energy heats the air, to many thousands of degrees in temperature, and the rapid expansion of the air creates sound waves, called thunder. These sound waves travel through the air at about 1/5 of a mile per second, so that at any distance away from a lightning strike, the flash is seen before the thunder is heard.
Is electricity faster than sound?
Yes. In air, sound travels at about 300 or 330 meters/second (it varies, depending on the temperature - also, sound in water or steel, for example, is quite a bit faster). But an electrical signal can go at about 2/3 the speed of light in a vacuum - that would be about 200,000 kilometers/second.
Does sound or light travel faster through water?
Light travels much faster than sound, through wood.
Do sound waves or light waves travel faster?
In air, light waves travel about 871 thousand times faster than sound waves.
Do LIGHT WAVES TRAVEL FASTER THAN SOUND WAVES.?
No light travels way faster
Does ultrasound travel faster than light?
Just to give some clarity, ultrasound doesn't travel faster than sound. It simply resonates at a higher frequency than normal sound. Sound in a lighter atmosphere, or light travels faster than ultrasound.
Why you see light first then sound after?
light travel faster than sound. see in real life we see lightning first then we hear the thunder.
Is light faster than sound or sound is faster than light?
Light is faster than sound
What waves travel faster sound or light?
Light waves travel faster than sound waves.
Why do we see distant events before we hear them?
because light waves travel faster than sound waves, you see the light a lot sooner than you hear the sound.
Can airplanes travel faster than sound?
NO they can not travel faster than sound in thunder and lightning
What does sound go faster through a vacuum or a solid?
Sound does not travel in a vacuum. It needs a medium in which to travel (unlike light) and so sound cannot travel in a vacuum. However, in a solid sound travels faster than in air.
Which travel faster in coated glass pipe sound or light?
No matter what you do to either of them, light is always going to travel at least several hundred times as fast as sound, and most generally about 800 thousand times as fast as sound. Sound will never travel faster than light, in any situation.
Does sound travel faster in a like in summer or winter?
no matter how hot or cold,the sound will still travel as a normal basis...did you know that sound travels faster than light true fact
