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How fast is both sound and light?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Sound and light never travel together, because they have different speeds.

Sound doesn't travel at all unless there is some material for it to travel through, and then its speed depends on the material. In air at sea level, the speed of sound is about 340 meters per second (751 miles per hour).

Light can travel from place to place whether or not there is any material in between, and its speed also depends on what it's traveling through. In vacuum, with no material at all, the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second (670.6 millionmiles per hour). In air at sea level, then, light travels about 882 thousand times as fast as sound does.

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