Lighting or Thunder....

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    Which occur first? Is it lighting or thunder?
     
    Lightning occurs first. Thunder is simply the sound produced by lightning.
     
    Nah said:
    Lightning occurs first.
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    Technically this is true, especially since that's how we often perceive it. However, thunder occurs simultaneously with lightning from the source. The delay between seeing a lightning strike and hearing a thunder clap has to do with how far away from the strike you were.

    Lightning can be seen for miles, whereas the sound of thunder has a far more limited travel distance.
     
    Lightning causes Thunder, but its so fast if you were in the middle of the phenomena as they happened you wouldn't be able to tell. Sound travels a lot slower than light, so you hear the thunder a bit later than you would see the lightning strike.
     
    Yeah! Speed of light is faster than sound so first lighting and then thunder.
    Thunder is the sound that accompanies lightning during a thunderstorm.
    But why does lightning even make a sound? :p
     
    Uzumaki Naruto said:
    Yeah! Speed of light is faster than sound so first lighting and then thunder.
    Thunder is the sound that accompanies lightning during a thunderstorm.
    But why does lightning even make a sound? :p
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    I think it's the same thing? Like I've never ever heard lightning how it sounds in movies even though i've seen it, but of course its always far away. So I think effectively Thunder is the sound of Lightning.
     
    Amore said:
    I think it's the same thing? Like I've never ever heard lightning how it sounds in movies even though i've seen it, but of course its always far away. So I think effectively Thunder is the sound of Lightning.
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    Aaron said:
    Not sure what you mean - if you mean how does the bolt itself make noise, I think it's to do with how quickly it heats up the air (because lol tens of thousands of degrees). The rapid expansion caused by the sudden change in temperature causes it to literally go BANG. The reason it can sound different is as you mentioned, then distance between yourself and the strike.

    Think back to the fight between a certain two brothers in a certain anime you really like ;).
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    lol both of you guys are right!! When electricity pass through air it cause air molecules to vibrate. This vibration is heard as sound :p More vibration are caused by what Rabi stated in his post.....then we get Thunder which is sound of lightning as in Amore's post. :p

    @Rabi: Damn! I know right! Ash vs Gary!! My favorite anime Pokémon. Are you trying to tell me about pikachu's thunderbolt?
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