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Explain why, the flash of a gun shot reaches us before the sound of the gun shot.

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The speed of light is much quicker than the speed of sound. Therefore our eyes perceive the flash of lightning within a fraction of a second whereas our ears perceive the rumble of thunder seconds afterward, and sometimes not even at all if the lightning strike was too distant for you to hear it

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