This is a tough one. My friend is a lightning freak. During a thunderstorm, he would get his camera out & start clicking away. You see, my friend has been deaf since birth. How do you describe the sound of thunder to him? Some times he can feel the vibration of thunder sound particularly if it is a big one & because of that he feels that thunder is more dangerous than lightning.
2006-10-20 17:58:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
1 volt can kill you.
2006-10-20 21:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can explain what it is, I cant describe the sound. It's simply a sonic shock wave caused by the rapid heating and expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. The bolt changes the air into plasma and it instantly explodes causing the sound known as a thunder clap.
Lightning is 50,000 volts. Thunder is vibration of air. Which can kill you? Easy.
2006-10-21 01:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sound of lightening and thunder when it is very close is almost instant. I find it hard to believe he thinks thunder is more dangerous than of electricity. Maybe he is very very young, like a child? Because, even my 3 year old has been warned about how dangerous outlets can be, and they are NO WHERE near what a bolt of lightening contains.
2006-10-21 01:10:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just explain to him that if you feel the thunder, the danger of the lightning has passed. If you have been hit by the lightning, you wouldn't be alive or atleast conscious to hear or feel the thunder.
2006-10-21 01:03:12 · answer #4 · answered by butrcupps 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get someone from the local highschool to get the big drums out. Have em play out a beat while he sits in the middle of them. Now that's thunder.
2006-10-21 01:09:00 · answer #5 · answered by planedws 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can always explain thunder as the 'boom' after the lightning. I don't think you can explain it any more simple than that.
2006-10-21 01:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by michael2003c2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can only describe sounds in terms of other sounds. If he's deaf from birth he has no reference points and it would be pointless to describe any sounds
2006-10-21 01:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by center of the universe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋