When lightning and thunder happens, we hear the sound of thunder after some time when lightning happens ie; we will first see the light and then the sound. Why ?

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Light travels faster than sound. So, sound of thunder take more time to reach us and hence we hear the sound of thunder after we see the lightning.

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