What is lightening? What causes the light and sound?
In: Physics
Lightning is an electrical balancing act where air gets so hot it turns into plasma, and when that plazmafied air cools off and retracts it pulls the surrounding air in. Where the lightning was is a ‘tunnel’ of low pressure. This difference gets balanced, because the surrounding air rushes in and causes the thunder sound, since the air rushing in hits itself.
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