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I tried this to un-confuse it:

How fast does light travel in a vacuum?

The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second.

How fast does sound travel in a vacuum?

Then it told me:

Sound cannot travel through a vacuum because there are no molecules to vibrate and transmit the energy from one place to another.

As brucethemoose mentioned, 0 temperature.




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