I hear the thunder after lightning because light waves travel faster than the sound waves.
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sahil
2/5/2015 12:22:18 am
Actually, lightning and thunder occur at the same time. However, light travels much faster than sound. Hence, we hear thunder after we see lightning.
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Zaid Parkar
2/5/2015 03:57:35 am
Lightning reaches our eyes before thunder reaches our ears because light travels faster than sound.Hence I see lightning first.
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Zayaan
2/5/2015 04:43:15 pm
The speed of light is 300000000 meters per second
The speed of sound is 343 meters per second
Since speed of light is much faster than sound, lightning reaches our eyes earlier than sound to our ears.
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Tanushri
2/5/2015 11:31:12 pm
Light travels faster than sound.this is why we see the lightning before a thunder is heard.
It takes 300,000 kms per sec for the light to travel whereas sound travels at 330 mts per sec.
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katherine
2/6/2015 12:08:11 am
We hear the thunder after we see lightening because light travels faster than sound
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Jessica
2/6/2015 06:41:15 pm
This is because light travels faster than sound
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ANNAM
2/13/2015 04:01:21 pm
The lightning travels faster than the thunder
light-300000000 meters [per second]
thunder-343 meters [per second]
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Mohamed Rahil
2/23/2015 08:00:35 pm
This is because the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound and hence I see lightning first.