If light travels faster than sound and sound can go through an opaque object not light then , how we can see lightning even after passing many more opaque object

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If that is happening then the light is reaching you through some other way maybe after getting scattered in the atmosphere or some other way but it is not possible for light to pass through an opaque object because opaque objects either absorb the light or they reflect it back but they never let it pass through them.

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