Of course, microwaves travel in straight lines, not around the Earth, but just like any other electromagnetic wave, like light or X-rays, the speed of microwaves is about 300,000 kilometers per second. That distance corresponds to roughly 71/2 times the Earth's circumference.
If light were to go in a circle around the earth it would go around the earth about 7 3/4 times in a second.
light can travel around earth about seven times
About 300,000,000 meters per second - enough to go around the Earth 7.5 times in a single second.
Light doesn't actually go around the Earth; light travels in generally straight lines. But if light DID go around the world, it could go around the world seven times in just less than one second.
According to Bill Bryson's book "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" lightening hits the earth around 1000 times a second, with around 40,000 thunderstorm a day. James Davenport.
Light cannot travel around the Earth, since light travels at a straight line and the Earth is round. The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second.
It is most likely to begin bubbling and grow around 5 times in size. For a demonstration you can go to you tube and type in soap in your microwave.
That's 4 times as much as going once around the Earth. The distance around the Earth is about 40,000 kilometers, or 40 million meters.
55 times per second. (globaly)
8.6 million times a day or 100 times a second.
At any given time there are roughly a couple thousand thunderstorms traversing the earth. Lightning flashes around 40 times per second given this research, and hence, strikes the earth roughly 150,000 times an hour and over a billion times a year.
Its about 120,000 km in diameter, compared with Earths 12,700km diameter. So its diameter is about 9.5 times as big as the earths. But when you look at the volume (a three dimensional measurement of size) it has a volume of around 763 times that of earth.