The Mystery of Superbolt Lightning
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- (Inside Science) -- While studying space plasma physics, Robert Holzworth, from the University of Washington, and his team needed to keep track of lightning strikes around the world and built the World Wide Lightning Location Network. This network has about 100 lightning detection stations located around the world from Antarctica to Finland. While the researchers were looking at lightning data, they discovered some intense lightning strikes -- called superbolts -- which are not your ordinary lightning flashes. Holzworth explains what a superbolt is and when they happen.
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Sure, I know what a superbolt is. It's what shoots from my wife's eyes whenever I use the words "geez, calm down."
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Maybe it’s because static in the air has more time to build up during colder periods, so the energy gets released all at once rather than many smaller discharges?
Possible if its colder the atoms and molecules are less active. Wouldnt that mean that the buildup of the current would also be slower? Maybe it gets the heatsource for the current buildup really from above from some rays and if its really cold bellow the cloud because the cloud is so high than there is less humidity in the air between the cloud and the ground wich means it cant ionise as easy and it can buildup current longer. Possible that it takes more energy down with it instead of multiple consecutive strikes like normally. Image such a thing strikes your ship and forms a big ass natural magnet XD that would be cool!
I heard one from over 10kms away, the thunder was super low pitched and lingering. this shit shook the windows of my house and made the lights blink
Dam your lucky a mfing superbolt hit about a half mile away from us? And shit That was the loudest most powerful soundni have ever heard like shit the stuff on our shelves fell off one of our windows broke due tot he shockwake and our powerline got cut due the power of that strike
Over water… the air has a higher humidity therefore making it more conductive.
Primarily in the winter months… electricity, in a wire or in air, likes to move more with less resistance… heat cause resistance. Compare this with the CERN supercollider. They have to keep electrical and magnetic components near absolute zero in order to put theory into the real world application.
I thought a postive CG was the most powerful form of lightning.
That would be more cool to see than a metor show
I've always wondered about sheet lightning, if lightning goes from the ground up, how does sheet lightning work?.
it’s just a regular lightning bolt but the lightning is behind a rain shaft or hail core so it looks like a big sheet of lightning
@@SonoranAstro but if it doesn't touch the ground, how is it possible
100 gigawatts can power a lot of deloreans.
You keep saying super bolt and show pictures of regular lightning. That doesn’t explain what it is… you could be talking about + lighting, you could be talking about extremely long bolts.
A superbolt is a lightning bolt with the power of a small yield nuclear weapon. They've rare. But one hit Bell Island once.
I don't know for sure but it would explain why, every so often, you find a tree just obliterated instead of just split like from a normal strike.
no, that's just a weaker tree being hit and the energy not transported through it and instead splitting it apart or maybe just a big lighting strike.
Superbolts do far more damage which is why they got their own special name. If a superbolt hits a tree then you'll see the damage on the trees next to it and those next to those.
Darn Gamma Ray's hurt
Hell yeahhh
Superbolt is my porn-star name.