How does lightning work?

From Science @ the Symphony: Can lightning strike the same place twice? Our friends from the Ontario Science Centre help explain!
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Holst: The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor
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[@Kronos0999]

I'm not gonna question why an Orchestra channel uploads science stuff. You taught me some shit, so thanks.

[@Kronos0999]

Even though you were talking as if I was a child...

[@TorontoSymphony]

The video was created for one of our Young People's Concerts, Science at the Symphony...so the target group was children.

[@Kronos0999]

@@TorontoSymphony Guess I have the IQ of a child....thanks a lot for the video though.

[@addmenow7454]

Ive learnt alot in these 2mins

[@rocket7986]

If a proton, or positive charge, where to leave the atom in which it was situated, we would have a nuclear reaction and the associated blast. Only electrons can move without a great deal of energy input. Lightning is when the electrons from the cloud make the jump from either cloud to ground, ground to cloud, or cloud to cloud. It is to offset charge imbalances. There is also no leaders. The transfer of electrons is instantaneous, travelling at very close to the speed of light. If protons where transferred, we would have a small atomic blast.

[@MrLondonGo]

Lightning can travel in either direction it just depends on the circumstances

[@rutgar1067]

How could this video only have 11k views???? This SHOULD at least be at 200k!! Very well made and contains a lot of knowledge to learn!

[@antonioman2972]

Rutgar foreal earth is fascinating as fuck

[@rishabh_music]

done bro.

[@witchelowful]

it happened

[@Kronos0999]

Now 300k

[@naughtyskywalker9292]

Lightning actually travels bottoms up. My life has been a lie.

[@miion3242]

The background instrumental is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

[@aldrinbenny5412]

This video is amazing. The way they explain is humble and interesting. Thank you very much for this short but useful information about lightning.

[@alohaeddie]

And I thought this whole time, it was always the god Zeus throwing the lightnings......

[@manjulaloganathan28]

Wow awesome clear explanation I've learned this in just two minutes

[@MohammedAhmed-nq8gq]

What am really wondering about, how electricity is forming because of moving vapor ?

[@dalinhowes5915]

Mohammed Ahmed static friction it’s like when you are going down a slide and sometimes you get shocked on a metal bolt it’s that same concept but on a massive scale

[@louisasmiles]

Why did I learn more in these minutes than hours at school and watching Pecos Hank? Was it the orchestral music?

[@MrLonerforever]

thanks for the video, but i have a question.. how can we consider lightning to be moving from the ground upward?? i thought electricity is a flow of electrons and in that case they should be moving from negative to positive ..from the bottoms of the clouds that are negatively charged to the ground just to get rid if the extra electrons>> please correct me cus i really wanna understand this

[@rhanz5748]

How is the positive/negative charge move upward?

[@sathyashreesrinivasan5687]

I learnt more from this than in my school. It is very informative

[@NeoNarratives10]

But Positive charge particles (Protons) are heavier than Electrons [9.10938356 × 10-31 kilograms is mass of electron and 1.6726219 × 10-27 kilograms is mass of proton]. So the air should lift up the lighter one up [Proton] and hence electrons should fall down. Can somebody clarify?

[@waydejaynes1291]

Balram Jat electricity is considered the flow of ELECTRONS, which are negatively charged so therefore basing the idea of "electricity" it would travel from the ground upwards. My electrical teacher always told me you never understand electricity you just learn to accept it.

[@strangelight159]

Wayde Jaynes Shouldn't the electron travel downwards,from negative to positive? Because protons can't move but electrons(which are negative) move. This video is not clear.

[@minimoulah]

I think you are thinking gravity when you should be thinking electromagnetism

[@behrouz6625]

Since when positive electric load bearers (protons) are able to leave the mass??!!!

[@Axphey007]

Amazing voice overs.

[@srinidhivanga5992]

this soooooooooooo awesome man!!!

[@DieusF250]

At 0:16 when the positive and negative charge being to magnetize it is like your hands with that very faint feeling, and you can even create lightning doing so, I have done it myself and have even popped a basketball attempting to clap at it with my hands, but I didn't clap my hands all the way, I had the mindset of thunderclapping the ball like it were a lightning strike, I went to clap my hands swung my arms wide and didn't close my hands stopped them before they touched and the ball popped

[@abaankhan3386]

What is the name of that tower

[@legencyfilms4931]

Thx for such nice video

[@amrdharani]

very well explained !!

[@vidhyayadav2685]

thanks a lot for this video

[@nimishpatil8876]

Liked it 😊 much better than those other boring videos

[@ftaloYT]

Yeah but why is an orchestra music channel uploading this video tho

[@TorontoSymphony]

This was part of a Young People's Concert a few seasons ago called Science at the Symphony.

[@azrilsabri3966]

easier to understand... thank you

[@k7tr7]

Wait. So the positive particle came up from my aunt?

[@gseshikala4787]

Very nice video

[@comedianpreet]

amazing😯

[@shashwathx6571]

amazing

[@toxicreaction6]

I actually dont understand how lightning comes from the ground because in saw a slow motion video of lightning coming from the sky.

[@tinkuyadav7333]

DOES IT IS RIGHT OR NOT ACCORDING TO ME IT IS NOT RIGHT LIGHTNING HAPPEN DUE TO MEET OF CLOUDS

[@elijahcota2408]

What about the lightning within the clouds that doesn’t reach the ground?

[@LucidityYoutube]

i thought positive charges dont move??

[@leoooo3242]

Lucidity the real reason is because charge forms in the clouds, there’s a high potential difference in the clouds, however there’s a low potential difference on earth. so to balance the charges, a bolt of energy(charge) shoots down below from a high to low potential difference. this makes the cloud stable.

[@marzuqi58]

Upward?

[@vannasanchez985]

This is fantastic

[@paytonsamuels2594]

Lightning strikes both upward and downward

[@pawanaggarwal707]

how a upward leader is formed if the protons can't move

[@angginandini]

thank you so much

[@danksamosa3952]

Why is the Toronto symphony orchestra posting about electric current?

[@GB_B]

There is lightning that just strikes another sky.

[@thenotoriousjuju8596]

Wow, I feel so smart 🤓🤓 THx

[@gayathrirajamohan1210]

I understood even better

[@rosatorres3144]

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[@baresports1344]

this is incorrect as protons (the posotive charge) cannot move

[@thorthegodofthunder9150]

Funniest video ever...

[@krishnamandge528]

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks. Recommend it to everyone :)

[@sathyashreesrinivasan5687]

IKR Very useful

[@JNoelVelazquez]

"The clouds are the biggest pair of socks and the earth is the biggest rug." The slowmo guys

[@schildknaap_van_gent]

wow cgi proves things

[@amina_.4258]

who else lives in toronto 😊

[@chick5755]

it's raining in lebanon

[@victorle8232]

lets try 66 times

[@dhimansen8662]

So dangerous

[@dhimansen8662]

Be careful

[@tommycortes9653]

Didnt know that lightning was electricity btw

[@dhernzanavar1988]

i do not like lighting

[@IronHorse1722]

At least we know Earth is flat and stationary and only the wind moves above our grounding station. It would be freaky to think this could be happening in outer space on a spinning ball in an atmosphere surrounded by a vacuum. Good thing lightning has something to.... errr... "earth" against up there.

[@DanielKolbin]

You lied! You said lightning goes up. If you SLOWLY play the video, when lightning hits...it goes down! Explain that!

[@anib8136]

Daniel Kolbin Series It’s too fast for the naked eye to see

[@mrreckless8223]

Makes no sense at all lol. U cant claim 2 things seperate when they are invisible.