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To: LibWhacker

That’s awesome. Wonder if that will explain part of the sound generated by a lightning strike, or even a spark.


3 posted on 11/07/2009 3:41:52 PM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: TheZMan

So let me get this straight. Scientists are still learning things that change “facts” in science? But they are so certain that they know all the “facts” on global warming - so much that they are willing to bankrupt all of the nations in the industrialized world - specifically US - to stop it.

Global warming = control. If CO2 is bad then they have the “right” to control all those who use/make it - every human being. (sorry to hijack thread...it just reminded me again how little we truly know about this planet, the universe, and interactivity between all entities. The Global Warmests are the most arrogant people on the planet.


4 posted on 11/07/2009 3:47:01 PM PST by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: TheZMan

I believe the sound production can be explained by the heating effects, although the thermodynamics are complex; rather like modeling an H-bomb explosion via computer simulation.

There may be some level of precision where quantum effects have to be accounted for.

BTW—

Since a garden variety gamma ray has a energy of 100+ KeV, it is plausible that a lightning strike, which often begins with potential differences of megavolts, could produce them.


7 posted on 11/07/2009 5:13:52 PM PST by Erasmus (Sid's oxymorons: Journal of Non-Verbal Communications.)
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