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it is 3.5 billion times fast in a milli-second

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- sound travels at roughly 700 mph in air at sea level;

- light travels at 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum;

- assuming we compare sound in air (as it can't travel in a vacuum) and light in a vacuum (as it can slow through a medium such as air or water), then light travels at 830,000 times the speed of sound.

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