Is lightning matter

Is lightning energy or matter? What is the definition of lightning in science? On discharge, a highly electrically conductive plasma channel is created within the air, and when current flows within this channel, it rapidly heats the air up to about 2000°C. Most lightning occurs within the clouds.

Sheet lightning describes. You misunderstood Mythbusters.

Resistance is measure in ohms not volts. Voltage is measured in volts. Taken from a site that discusses lightning voltage: The voltage involved is proportional to the length of the bolt. Someone already mentioned the words for fear of thunder and lightning, but my name actually derives from keraunophobia.

Astraphobia is a morbid fear, which is somewhat the superlative to the prefixes kerauno- and cerauno-. England is surrounded by the relatively cool waters of the north Atlantic. These cool waters have the effect of keeping temperatures on the cool side, which in turn limits the instability of the atmosphere, a needed component for decent.

It is the product of a necessarily ENTIRE physical system, a globally coherent vacuum.

No one is sure why lightning bolts follow a zigzag path as they move. The main bolt or stroke will go back up to the cloud. It will make a flash of lightning. The air will spread quickly.

Here are some safety rules. When a column of electrons flows from sky to groun the air that it passes through lights up with energy. What we see as lightning is actually the air where the electrons are at, getting excited and giving off light. Not the electrons itself. Smooth channel lightning is an informal term referring to a type of cloud-to-ground lightning strike that has no visible branching and appears like a line with smooth curves as opposed to the jagged appearance of most lightning channels.

They are a form of positive lightning generally observed in or near the convective regions of severe thunderstorms in the north central United States. See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Lightning is also plasma.

Free access to maps of former thunderstorms. With his iconic kite-and-key experiments in the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is an electrical phenomenon, and since then the general view has been that lightning bolts. When negatively charged electrons build up at the base of a thunderclou anything it passes over will become positively charged. But now that mystery has deepene with the discovery that lightning can result in matter -antimatter annihilation.

In a collaborative study appearing in Nature, researchers from Japan describe how.

For example, they are always moving, and when they move, they can exert a (usually very small) force on an object (just like moving matter can). If the flame is hot enough, the gases are ionized and become yet another state of matter: plasma. Burning a metal, such as magnesium, can ionize the atoms and form plasma. This type of oxidation is the source of the intense light and heat of a plasma torch. Bottom left: A plasma globe, illustrating some of the more complex plasma phenomena, including filamentation.

A LIGHTNING strike which hit the Washington Monument was a sign from God he is not happy with Donald Trump and America, conspiracy theorists have claimed. Black Lives Matter protests. Thunderbolt cables, presumably for cost reasons.