What is the wind?

Question

As a college student in physics class in the 80's at a Big Ten midwestern university, I actually asked this question, out loud. Asking this in a physics class is like asking "What is the meaning of life?" in a humanities class (which I also did). Okay, so maybe I'm "weird." But, I'll bet, if you ponder over the question, you'll not come up with a satifactory answer. Creativeness in your answer will get you points, though.

Answer 1

It is a fast moving group of particles. And wind is created by the difference in pressure in the different parts of the planet. When I was young I thought that wind was a living creature and that it was created by God`s hand when He got angry!

Answer 2

# air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
# a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
# weave: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
# breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
# extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
# wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
# empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
# tip: an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
# scent: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
# coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
# wind instrument: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
# fart: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
# wreathe: form into a wreath
# the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
# hoist: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

Answer 3

Lol those must have been fun times :-P

Well i would have to say the same as everyone else, in that wind is just movement of particles. However, another theory that i believe is that wind movement may also be caused by solar winds. Where by the force of the winds has some effect on this Earth.

And for your other question on the meaning of life... it can be interrupted in that life is the way you make it. How ever way you live your life, that is life.

Answer 4

Wind is actually air in motion

When the Earths surface gets heated air expands so we have a low air pressure fomation in certain areas that is the density of air in the area decreases
And we also have a high air pressure in another area that is the density of air in that area increases....

So the air from the high density[high pressure] region starts flowing towards the low density[low pressure] region so that the density of air remains the same throughout the world

This Movement of air is what we call wind
It is not caused by movement of trees as someone above me has said !

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Answer 5

The trees moving back and forth makes the wind. Everyone knows that.

Answer 6

Wind is a form of energy that winds up everything whatever comes under its influence.

Answer 7

Wind is movement of air... nothing supernatural about that

Answer 8

Hermes is the god of messages. As he is delivering his messages, he speeds from one place to another. This causes the air to move as he speeds by.

Duh! Everyone knows this.