Re: [TCML] Why so loud?

[Atomic <atomicrox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any links/papers about this?

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Mark X2 <susax2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2013/2/8 Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On 2/8/13 12:31 PM, Mark X2 wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> Actually, it isn't the air expanding because of the heat that makes the
> >> thunder.
> >> The shockwave is caused by the rapidly imploding vacuum that is left
> >> behind
> >> when the spark disappears.
> >> It's comparable to cracking your knuckels or cavitation in a radiator.
> >>
> >>
> > Not really.. that "collapsing vacuum" explanation (which has also been
> > used for thunder from lightning) is incorrect (and probably dates from
> the
> > nature abohrs a vacuum days)
> >
>
> You've just shattered my whole world Jim, all those years I thought I
> knew...
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