You forgot that sound needs a medium, can be a gas, liquid or solid object, but it needs one.
Also if you want to experience what you described just watch a storm one day, you see the lightning first and the sound gets to you later depending on how far away you are.
A11ce t1_itzslev wrote
Reply to comment by ecky--ptang-zooboing in Every language travels at the speed of sound, except sign language that travels at the speed of light by _somename_
You forgot that sound needs a medium, can be a gas, liquid or solid object, but it needs one.
Also if you want to experience what you described just watch a storm one day, you see the lightning first and the sound gets to you later depending on how far away you are.