what makes lightning?

Question

whenever its raining and theres lightning what makes the lightning?

Answer 1

the lightning actually starts in the ground from static electricity...I always thought it was odd starting from ground...

Answer 2

there is only one law of physics, it is written many different ways

this law is, "everything wants to go down hill"

you can translate this to, everything wants to be equal, everything want to loose its energy. before the big bang there was nothing and that's what every particle in the universe is trying to get back to. The sum total of everything is nothing.

Lightning - the electric charge between the ground and the clouds is not even. When the difference between the two is great enough (the hill is steep enough) the electric charge overcomes the electrical resistance of the air (the ball rolls) the charge equalises (the ball reaches the bottom of the hill)

Then the air moving across the ground exchanges electrons again and the charge build up again, this cause 200 lightning strikes a seconds across the earth

Answer 3

Within the cloud there is a lot of turbulance, the colision of particles strips some of their electons and join to others. The positive charges collect at the top and negative particles at the bottom. The earth, being a bank of electrons wants to equalize this. The attraction eventually becomes so great that particles race through the air, the collision is so great that the temperature raises to over 30 000ºC, the air around it expand quickly, this is thunder.

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

There are temp and voltage differences in the clouds. Like a great big capacitor. Then zap , it equalizes. Like a spark from walking on a carpet and touching a doorknob but on a grand scale. If you like sparks study van de graff generators and tesla coils. Maybe wimhurst machines and leyden jars too.

Answer 5

ask a physics teacher i just learned it in that class

Answer 6

static electricity

Answer 7

clouds and static

Answer 8

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