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Do you hear thunder before lightning or see lightning before thunder???
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We see lightening before thunder since light travels at much faster spped than the sound of the thunder.
A flash of lightning, followed after some seconds by a rumble of thunder, is for many people the first illustration of the fact that sound (like light) does not travel instantaneously, and that sound is by far the slower. Using this difference, one can estimate how far away the bolt of lightning is...
A flash of lightning, followed after some seconds by a rumble of thunder, is for many people the first illustration of the fact that sound (like light) does not travel instantaneously, and that sound is by far the slower. Using this difference, one can estimate how far away the bolt of lightning is...
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Because light travels faster than sound, you see the lightning first!
Answer Date: 04:39pm 04/23/08
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Lightning before thunder.
Answer Date: 06:19pm 04/23/08
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lightning flashes than you here thunder... unless its close enough to you, at which point it probably doen't matter
Answer Date: 06:44pm 04/23/08
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Dear Questionaire,
You will see both thunder and lighting at the same time. since we humans are split the seconds differences between the thunder and lighting.(capacity to travel to earth differences)
You will see both thunder and lighting at the same time. since we humans are split the seconds differences between the thunder and lighting.(capacity to travel to earth differences)
Answer Date: 06:56pm 04/23/08
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Light travels so fast it is vertually instant that you see the lightning.
Sound travels at approximatly 300meters per second, so it takes 3 seconds for the thunder clap to travel 1kilometer, or 4.5 seconds for it to travel 1 mile.
So count the number of seconds between when you see the lightning and hear the thunder. Take the number of seconds and divide by 5 and that will tell you how far away the storm is in miles....
Sound travels at approximatly 300meters per second, so it takes 3 seconds for the thunder clap to travel 1kilometer, or 4.5 seconds for it to travel 1 mile.
So count the number of seconds between when you see the lightning and hear the thunder. Take the number of seconds and divide by 5 and that will tell you how far away the storm is in miles....
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as it is raining heavily here with thunder and lightening (bangkok, thailand), i will take a few minutes to walk out onto my yard and risk myself for your question... (a few minutes)... i have returned after witnessing this phenomenon and i can safely and 100 percent correctly say that according to my visual and auditory senses, i first saw lightning followed by thunder. there is also a calculation as to calculate the exact distance of lightening from your position....
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lightning travels at the speed of light, thunder travels at the speed of sound, so the gap between the lightning (first) and the thunder tells you how far away the storm is. Once in the mountains I had both at once, not good :-)
Answer Date: 12:50am 04/25/08
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lightning!
Answer Date: 02:23am 04/25/08
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lighting before thuder is correct.
Answer Date: 02:24am 04/25/08
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See lightning before hearing thunder. The speed of light is faster than the spped of sound.
Answer Date: 03:06am 04/25/08
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