From the Thunderbolts episode…
Andrew Hall: The Shocking Truth
Original Post August 21, 2021
Running Time 20:58
A shock wave is a plasma.
It may be a weak plasma, like the sonic wave produced by a fighter jet that condenses water vapor, or it may be a sheet of electric current that spits lightning of its own, like the shock wave of a hydrogen bomb.
Ears ring, windows rattle, the dog hides under the bed. It’s thunder from an arc of electric discharge, or from a passing supersonic jet. Rub your feet on the carpet then touch a doorknob. You get a spark and hear a snap. Same thing—tiny scale. Think of the power of a sonic boom traveling miles with enough energy to rattle windows.
Andy Hall deconstructs the cause and effect of ‘shock wave’—and why it’s quite obvious in a not too distant past lightning was far more powerful on this planet than what we experience today.
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