[PD] pd thunder

[Peter Plessas]

* Andy Farnell <padawan12 at 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