d to be drawn down from the upper ether. Some reason ought to be given why that which naturally ascends should descend, and why it should not always do so, but only when Ashley Cole Jersey it is cloudy. When the sky is clear there is no lightning: to say that there is, is altogether wanton.
The view that the heat of the sun’s rays intercepted in the clouds is the cause Pierre Hojbjerg Jersey of these phenomena is equally unattractive: this, too, is a most careless explanation. Thunder, lightning, and the rest must have a separate and determinate cause assigned to them on which they ensue. But this theory does nothing of the sort. It is like supposing that water, snow, and hail existed all along and were produced when the time came and not generated at all, as if the atmosphere brought each to Yannick Carrasco Jersey hand out of its stock from time to time. They are concretions in the same way as thunder and lightning are discretions, so that if it is true of either that they are not generated but pre-exist, the same must be Canada Goose Mountaineer Jackor true of the other. Again, how can any distinction be made about the intercepting between this case and that of interception in denser substances such as water? Water, too, is heated by the sun and by fire: yet when it contracts again and grows cold and freezes no such ejection as they describe occurs, though it ought on their the. to take place on a proportionate scale. Boiling is due to the exhalation generated by fire: but it is impossible for it to Per Mertesacker Jersey exist in the water beforehand; and besides they call the noise ‘hissing’, not ‘boiling’. But Cristian Bonilla Jersey hissing is really boiling on a small scale: for Lucas Vazquez Jersey when that which is brought into contact with moisture and is in process Fernando Llorente Jersey of being extinguished gets the better of it, then it boils and makes the noise in question. Some-Cleidemus is one of them-say that lightning is nothing objective but merely an appearance. They compare it to what happens when you strike the sea with a rod by night and the water is seen to shine. They say that the moisture in the cloud is beaten about in the same way, and that lightning is the appearance of brightness that ensues.
This theory is due to ignorance of the theory of reflection, which is the real cause of that phenomenon. The water appears to shine when struck because our sight is reflected from it to some bright object: hence the phenomenon occurs mainly by night: the appearance is not seen schweiz Tröja by day because the daylight is too in, tense and obscures it.
These are the theories of others about thunder and lightning: some maintaining that lightning is a reflection, the others that lightning is fire shining through the cloud and thunder its extinction, the Nike Air Pegasus Mænd Sko fire not being generated Oscar de Marcos Jersey in each case but existing beforehand. We say that the same stuff is wind on the earth, and earthquake under it, and in Jordan Rossiter Jersey the clouds thunder. The essential constituent of all these phenomena is the same: namely, the dry exhalation. If it flows in one direction it is wind, in another it causes earthquakes; in the clouds, when they are in a process of change and contract and condense into water, it is ejected and caulinks:
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