Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
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We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?
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Shock wave: a sharp change of pressure in a narrow region traveling through a medium, especially air, caused by explosion or by a body moving faster than sound
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Ok thx anyways have 50 works due so bye
They have discovered time travel
@@reanusbeangus6713 donation contributors and the owner get to see and comment the video before it is released to everybody else
Okay, seriously, why does every single one of your videos need to have a sponsor? Is it because your company isn’t making enough money to pay your employees?
Let's keep PA Red!
Whoever in the team decided that this video needed rain sounds in the background rather than the usual music deserves something good happening to them.
That was our awesome illustrator Sarah!
@@MinuteEarth well, give Sarah a cookie, please.
Agreed. She deserves a cookie.
- Totally Not Sarah
was that sarcasm?
when are you going to post thunderstorm ASMR
MinuteEarth, giving us questions and answers we never knew we needed, since 2013
Oof
Oof
Don't forget that minute physics has been around for even longer
Pretty much
To be fair that is a blessing especially when there is quarantine
Oh god. I thought "a perfect _storm_ of sound" was your pun for the video, and then you had to go and sucker punch me with "Thor-igin stories".
haha yes, that pun was rather *shocking*
@@schino Get out.
@@AryaBaskara What? Are all these puns too *electric* for you?
Me touching anything metal after taking off my sweater: “The last lightning Bender: Great power comes with a great cost”
XD.. underrated comment my friend !!!
I found it pretty relaxing to hear thunder rumble in this video, interesting.
A nightmare for me
@@greencandle1399 lol are you still a kid?
@@lamargoat2.054Uncalled for. You never know what a person might have been through in life.
@@lamargoat2.054Uncalled for. You never know what a person might have been through in life.
@@robert-andreiionita2827 still shouldn't be afraid of a nice sound that's made by nature
Watching this wearing headphones. Pure bliss❤️
All that rain sounds made me sleepy
You should try ASMR
Speaking of hearing the other day I read something very interesting about gene therapy to cure hearing loss. Normal hearing aids are based on a microphone which picks up sounds and converts it to electrical pulses (here you can distinguish roughly between 20 tones). In this new approach, however, neurons in the ear are genetically modified to respond to light. When micro-LEDs are then placed into the ear neurons can be stimulated in a very controlled manner which cures deaf people and makes them even hear better than healthy individuals (I made a video about this a long time ago) What I just thought was how people with such new implants would hear thunder..
That’s interesting
They could hear ligtning 😮
Awesome! So an episode on that?
I have this idea since Elon Musk announced neuralink
What if we connect the neuralink directly to hearing part of the brain with high resolution mic
Or we connect the neuralink to the visual part of the brain with some kind of a high resolution camera
Would that cure blindness/hearing loss in the world?
@@NadDew it.isnt that easy sadly. Not all parts of the brain habe the necesary connections to work senses, and neuralink is definitely limited in that regard. You may be able to solve a few more people's problems than with cochlear implants and other resources but definitely wont be able to solve all of it (at least with current state of science and neusoscience in particular)
And then along came ZEUS!
He hurled his THUNDABOLT
Lol
He zapped! Locked those suckers in a vault..
They’re trapped
And on his own stopped
Chaos in its tracks
And that's the gospel truth!
I live on a region that every year goes through a roughly 100-day-long drought. Air humidity routinely drops below 20%, sometimes below 10%. Right now, we are in the last days of this period (hopefully). You have no idea how comforting these sounds were to me :)
I love the sound of rain and thunder idk why but it makes me feel like I’m watching the birth and death of the universe
I love it too
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Yep, I just learned that thunder isn’t always the same noise.
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Them: *Clap Boom*
Me: “...the sound of my heart. The beat goes on and on and on and on~”
And boom clap you make me feel good 😂
Thunder is just god farting (that's what I thought when I was young)
😂
I thought it was just some guy who had tacobell.
One of my childhood friends kinda half believed it was the angels bowling🎳
Well my friend thought that rain was god peeing on us
And thunder storms where really bad days you know what I mean
This video is so nice to see! You explain everything with such a simple and easy to understand way that you cant miss a single thing from the explanation! Amazing vid and keep up the amazing job!
Wow, never occurred to me.
what how did you comment this the video was uploaded 5 mins ago
I see what u did there
Tell me
@@blakestartsev1239 members see it early. Though I thought members usually have a little logo next to their name?
So I dont really know
@@blakestartsev1239 this happens when a video is uploaded but then deleted on reuploading the video it comes with all the likes and comments it received at first upload look at minute earths own comment
the lack of the usual background music, replaced by rain for the whole video, completely threw me off!
How does everyone notice this ahaha, I never knew there was any background music until now and only realised there was rain sounds until I read the comments
I never thought a video this interesting could nearly put me to sleep.
how can you "not like" a video like this? this is so cool, thanks guys!
Nice now I can figure out the proximity of thunder while enjoying my tea
I appreciate the rainymood background instead of the normal kickstarter music
Same here, fits the mood very well.
It makes perfect sense that any shockwave will consist of a wide range of frequencies. signals that have a narrow band in the time domain will have a large band in the frequency domain. This is a result of Fourier transforms and essentially the same phenomenon that underlies the Heisenberg uncertainty principle!
Another thing: I once noticed how a thunderbolt can look way brighter when looking out onto a field (with the lightning behind you) in one part of the field than another part of the field. Then it struck me (lol) lightning happens in the clouds (and around it) so obviously it still has shadows just like the sun does. Thus brighter and darker spots.
By the way, there are "two kinds of thunder", that happen in quick succession. The first is the stepped leader (honestly, I had to google this one 'cause I didn't remembered the exact name), and it goes from the cloud to the ground. The second is the exact opposite: it goes up, from the ground to the sky. This last one is called return strike. They aways happen in quick succession and are followed by hundreds of smaller strikes that can happen in less than a second. The first two leave ionized path behind, and the light of the lighting is actually caused by all the ionized gas.
The sound mixing on this video was fantastic
If you've even been close enough to a thunder you'd understand the crack the whip reference. It doesn't even sound like you'd expect of a thunder, it sounds like you just broke off a huge branch from a tree, but in a fraction of a second. It's really loud and different then when it's far. Where I'm from we get massive thunderstorms literally in our backyard every summer
0:24 Animation error:
Paper of lightning charges are Positive + up and Negative - down, So instead they balanced charges in the wrong, same difference on the paper.
0:52 (NOT AN ERROR, INFO!)Lightning can extreme heat the air up to 50,000°F (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun), When lightning discharge current superheats the air, Air itself became extremely heated that causes the thunder sound pressure to be super-pressurized in the frequency that explode outward from an expanded, contracted and compressed air of heat, which forms as a supersonic rated explosive shockwave like a jet, this may transition to an blast acoustic wave of air being pushed all away like the wind possibly and now we hear as thunder. However, the radiation of superheat air shockwave may scare people and it needs to take shelter in an untouched-metal automobile that is made of hardtop!
Safety:
When you hear thunder, You're closer to the bolt. So carry a good set of earplugs always for protection, stay inside an automobile or at home.
When you see lightning, please consider use some closing eye products for a bright prevention/protection
When you experience lightning strikes in a thunderstorm, try a lightning rod! Lightning rods are extra conductor of electricity and protect lightning strikes from striking in your home by snapping down inside of a rod.
“Thorigin” earned that thumbs up from me. Best pun of the day!
As many others have pointed out, the ambience of rain in this video is a wonderful creative decision. Well done.
The rain was super relaxing, but the thunder wasn’t.
0:10
When I was younger my mother always told me that the angles were bowling and every time you hear thunder one of them got a strike.
Chilean quarantined in Buenos Aires, where rainstorms can last for days. This explains a lot. 💞
Please make more videos with ambient sounds 💚💚💚
If they were able to do that, I don’t want it to be two versions one with the thunder, because people find that to be relaxing, and one without the thunder because there are people here that find thunder is scary to them because of their life experience with that.
Wow, I’ve never thought of where the rumble came from, but when you say it, it all make sense.
Really good illustration with sound and terminologies
thank you very much for all the thunder/rain ASMR, i swear this video has done better than any storm video on the internet 😂
The rain in the background, great touch.
What would be a ball-park estimate of the distance at which you can hear it as a crisp clap?
Actually, I never wondered about this. Let's watch and learn!
(Of coarse, now, in retrospect is seems obvious. (o:)
BTW, this time the animation is a bit different. And our resident friend of hyenas branches out into physics. Good work!
The raining in the background makes me love this video even more
im writing a script and zaptos is a key element to the story. i love that you have that pokemon on your video
Your diagram excludes one important aspect of certain, very rare, lightning strikes know as positive lightning. Because they originate from the positively charged upper region of the cloud, and have to cut through the negatively charged lower layer, then are vastly more powerful.
Negative lightning often sounds like a snare drum with overlapping crackling, but positive lightning just sounds like a bomb - one single clean shockwave that's extremely resonant.
You ever get the peeling or cracking thunder? KEEEEEEEEERRRAAAACK
Scares the hell out of me. At to that that I’ve been in buildings stuck by lightning and had a transformer explode from a strike right outside the house and it’s no surprise I’ve got some trauma and anxiety when it comes to thunderstorms. The worst I ever heard sounded like what I imagine a nuke sounds like.
literally perfect narration
One time, there was a thunder-strike near me that sounded like what I could only describe as "a recycling bin tumbling down a flight of stairs".
The ASMR levels for this video are off the charts (sorry I couldn't think of a pun). Good choice having all that rain in the background.
This is so much more nuanced than the classic how far away is the storm counting. Many different sources of thunder in a given storm....at varying distances.
I already had a solid understanding of thunder, since meteorology was a hobby of mine as a kid.
What I didn't expect to learn was the AUDIO FREQUENCY VISUALIZATIONS. That has always broken my brain when I worked with Audition, and now I get it! THANK YOU!!
Also, having grown up in Texas, I really miss thunder now that I live in Southern California.
I'm an electrical engineer and I've wondered for so long why sometimes you can see lightning but not hear it. Googling it only ever came up with "Light is fast". Thank you MinuteEarth for answering questions most people don't think to ask!. Next you can do how things can "radiate" cold
I love that you put Zapdos as graphics
The Fourier transform of a single pulse is a constant amplitude for all frequencies. This is also true with light, and is the reason we need broadband gain media to make ultrashort laser pulses. An ultrashort pure tone is a mathematical contradiction.
Oooo I really like the constant raining sound instead of typical music
Watching this while being in a thunderstorm definitely put a smile on my face 😊
2:52
Zapdos!
𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽ℯ ℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 ℴ𝓃ℯ 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓂ℴ𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝒶𝓃 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒏𝒐.
From 0:05 to 0:10
Minutearth: "Whether it's the rage of a young God, or the rumbling of Thor's chariot, or the flapping wings of a giants bird.. "
Me: "How can Thor's hammer not fall to the ground due to it's weight and gravity?" AND "how did that bird go flapping around like normal and no one ever noticed it?"
lol 😂
A nice downpour with rolling thunder and the slight hint of ozone is one of the most relaxing experiences I know.
I swear I feel so relaxed when that happens
The most relaxing MinuteEarth video to listen to.
I once had a bolt of lightning hit across the street from me. Heard a buzz like mains electricity just before and then an explosion, couldn’t even say it was thunder. Coolest thing ever to experience!
Whether the lightning is positive or negative also plays a role in the sound. Negative lightning is colder and has more return strokes. Positive lightning is hotter so it produces a bigger shockwave and has less return stokes.
Ah I've been in love with lightning and thunder since I was a kid. During the vacation on my 2nd grade, My uncle invited me to play D&D along with my brothers and cousins. He made a character for me which is similar to Edward Elric's appearance and have the affinity with electricity and then I learned about lightning. Since then I've been addicted to that element. Until now I am still amazed and would always look up in the sky when I hear thunder hoping I can see more lightning, although it's sad because someone might get hurt. I even wonder if I can survive a lightning strike, I don't know I just want to test if I am immune to its effect because I feel like I am lightning itself 😁.
That “Rain Check” pun was too smooth
just wanna say that the background rain in the video is extremely soothing
Teacher:What sre you laughing about?
Me:Nothing
My brain:Brett's lo-fi
Dude ... this video sounds so much better when its really raining outside, that combined with the rain in the video itself make it feel so good
Love ur work
I may have something to add to that, although these are my thoughts and not scientifically proven:
When a lightning bolt doesn't strike the ground and instead travels horizontally through the cloud, you can hear the actual direction of the bolt. Depending on the height, the sound may be fading in with a rumble, booming and fading out with a rumble again, when high above. If the thunder travelled near the base of the cloud, you might hear a clap followed by a directional rolling thunder. You can even determine the direction it was coming from and where it's headed. This gives the storm a kind of 3-dimensional feeling when you can hear the path of the actual bolt. I really like hearing them.
Positive lighting will never repeat, it is always a big bang.
The normal negative lighting can also repeat, the well known flickering and rumbling.
Listening to this video with the subwoofer cranked was surprisingly relaxing. There are almost never any thunderstorms where I live now, so this really brought back my childhood, as weird as that sounds ;)
Not sure which one I like better, both are equally terrifying, the crackle one are always super loud, and the ground shaking one will sometimes sneak up on you then rumble everything; but one I dislike is when u can hear the static sock
the idea of a giant bird flapping its wings and thor's chariot sound like pretty cool ideas
this video is weirdly calming
I love the sound that's discribed as boom, that's just so amazing.
Thunder is probably the most soothing sound in nature 😍
Just stormed last night here in Australia
Not gonna lie...that opening of just "Thunder" made me think of Luigi (and wish you'd rolled your r like that lol).
Really cool how degradation of higher frequencies causes the varied sounds of thunder.
When I was a kid my parents told me thunderstorms were the angels trying to move furniture up in heaven and then dropping it which made the big claps/booms, then the REALLY big booms became an inside joke of "welp there goes the grand piano" and suddenly I wasn't scared of thunder anymore lol
The subtle lightning puns throughout this video make me give a like
I moved from the midwest to the west coast, and I miss thunderstorms the most
The boom and rumble sound is so soothing to hear tho. But if you are near a lightning, it is terrifying af.
I'm genuinely impressed with the number of puns you can pull off in each of your videos
"Thorigin stories" was perfect and I adored it!
It's condusing and interresting to watch this video during an actual thunderstorm
Minute Earth ASMR series. I love this
This was a great and simple explanation!
Glad you cover My fav topic in Kate's voice (My fav voice)
The raining sound in the background was so relaxing...
all the sound, even narration, was crisp AF on the whole video :) thanks!
God a bit ago, NYC and Long Island got a massive thunder storm that went right above us. It sounded like Minecraft thunder sounds and I'm sure if I looked out the window during it, I would have seen lighting. And heard the big claps. And I woke up to the Gods throwing down their stuff at me.
This was strangely beautiful and sort of calming. Thanks!
In terms of sound, this was one of the most pleasing video of yours to date.
What a fantastic video. Well done MinuteEarth team.
@minuteearth There is a problem with the animation. The lightning bolt is seen as going from the cloud to the ground but the visual part of a lightning strike actually trabels from the ground up.
Thank you so much for this video❤🎉
A few other videos on youtube explained thunder as the sound from the implosion when the lightning creates a partial vacuum. Thanks for clarifying that this sound is from an explosion due to lightning super heating the air. Wait, could it be both sounds from explosion and implosion as it's not a single note?
I've never really gotten asmr, but listening to all these thunder sounds with the rain in the background made me feel soooo good
I never even new thunder sounded different,I guess I didn't notice.
When I was a little kid in New Hampshire, I always thought thunder came first, then lightning. I guess 'cause I'd usually hear the thunder first, before seeing any lightning from an approaching storm.
The shock wave can be dangerous if you are standing very near the lightning strike. On episode, a stormchaser got knocked 15 feet into the air by the shock wave. He was hurt and had to go to the hospital.
2:42 sounded like a minecraft lightning_bolt... a
Before watching, I'm guessing it has something to do with wave dispersion, and the fact that different parts of the lightning bolt lie at different distances. Oh, and wave attenuation differences for different frequencies.
Nice, so I was pretty much right.