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they aren't, they are much much slower.
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What travels faster than light waves and sound waves?
Light travels faster than sound ... about 875,000 times faster. Nothing travels faster than light.
Do light and sound both move in waves?
Light and sound both move in waves. Light is much faster than sound. Light waves are smaller than sound waves.
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
What two ways are light and sound different?
sound waves are faster in water than in land, light waves are faster in land
How much faster are light waves than sound waves?
About a million times faster
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.
Why do light waves have a far shorter wavelength than sound waves?
sound waves travel faster slower than light waves In air, sound travels around 300m/s.
Why do radio waves travel faster than the sound wave?
Radio waves are just low frequency light waves. They travel at the speed of light, much faster than sound waves which are just changes in pressure traveling in waves
Why are radiant waves faster than sound waves?
radiant waves are waves that have their sources from the sun. they are light rays and light is faster than sound in all ramifications. the speed of light is 300 x 108 ms-1 while that of sound is 300x 106 ms-1 .
Does light waves or sound waves travle faster?
Light travels much, much faster than sound. Light travels at 299792458 m/s while sound only goes 340.29 m/s.
