6 Feb
2008
6 Feb
'08
4 p.m.
- Andy Farnell padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk [2008-02-05 23:33]:
You're spot on there. I will develop the stereo image as I work on the environment model.
But interestingly enough, lightning _is_ an explosion, one hell of a big explosion. The plasma is as hot as the Sun for an instant and that's why the air expands, the energy in a lightning bold makes most bombs seem like little fireworks. The difference is, and this is unusual, it radiates in a cylinder not a sphere, and sound comes from a simultanoeus extent (because the bolt moves at the speed of electricity which is closer to the speed of light than the speed of sound)
Isn't the noise happening when the light/plasma channel is collapsing after the lightning happened?
regards, Peter