Tonights Lighting

[grundlepunch]

i thought thunder was caused when lightning "burns" threw the air and the air come back in to fill that void and creates a "clap"

[JoeNitro]

i thought thunder was caused when lightning "burns" threw the air and the air come back in to fill that void and creates a "clap"

srysly

[grundlepunch]

srysly

yes, are you making fun of me?

[grundlepunch]

What is Thunder?

Thunder is the sound that lightning makes. Sounds simple but why does lightning make a sound. Any sound you hear is made up of vibrations, the vibrations travel through the air as waves until they reach your ear.

This means lightning must cause some vibrations.

Lightning is a huge discharge of electricity. When lightning strikes huge amounts of electricity shoots through the air, this causes two things to happen.

1. The electricity hits the air and starts it vibrating, anything vibrating causes a sound.

2.The lightning is also very hot and heats up the air around it. Hot air gets bigger: it expands. As lightning is very hot the air gets bigger very quickly and pushes against the air particles starting another vibration.

These vibrations are what you are hearing when you hear thunder, the rumbling of thunder is caused by the vibration or sound bouncing of the ground and the clouds.

it does not have to hit the ground

[Bigbike]

yes, are you making fun of me?

Careful, you might get a beer to your face.

[Mighty Quine]

gnarly lightning

[crosbike]

srysly

The reason why lightning is always accompanied by thunder is because the thunder is caused by the bolt of electricity produced in a lightning strike. The deep rumbling and sharp cracks of thunder are produced as the air around the lightning bolt is super heated—up to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit (33,315 C)—and rapidly expands. It creates a shock wave which manifests itself as thunder. The closer the lightning is, the louder the clap of thunder will be.



seriously

and it is spelled cloud not clowd.

[grundlepunch]

The reason why lightning is always accompanied by thunder is because the thunder is caused by the bolt of electricity produced in a lightning strike. The deep rumbling and sharp cracks of thunder are produced as the air around the lightning bolt is super heated—up to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit (33,315 C)—and rapidly expands. It creates a shock wave which manifests itself as thunder. The closer the lightning is, the louder the clap of thunder will be.



seriously

truth, now go pound a monster

[crosbike]

truth, now go pound a monster

me or joe? lol. id rather sleep tonite so no.

[JoeNitro]

no but i see nothing in there about air "spliting" and "claping" back together. just vibrating. like a rock into water it makes sound waves that travel out. no seperation.

[JoeNitro]

never said you were wrong. just sounded like you were serious about air splitting. and i dont think thats possible. what you posted is correct, as is alex.

[grundlepunch]

no but i see nothing in there about air "spliting" and "claping" back together. just vibrating. like a rock into water it makes sound waves that travel out. no seperation.

In a fraction of a second the air is heated to a temperature approaching 28,000 °C (50,000 °F)[1]. This heating causes it to expand outward, plowing into the surrounding cooler air at a speed faster than sound would travel in that cooler air. The outward-moving pulse that results is a shock wave, [2] similar in principle to the shock wave formed by an explosion, or at the front of a supersonic aircraft.

sorry if i called it a "clap", unlike you who thought the sound was made when it hits the ground

[crosbike]

no but i see nothing in there about air "spliting" and "claping" back together. just vibrating. like a rock into water it makes sound waves that travel out. no seperation.

um. it superheats the surrounding air causing turbulence when the air comes back together. kind of like splitting and clapping back together. either way you were wrong once again.

[Buffalo Phil]

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[crosbike]

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you spelled lightning incorrectly