New Study Provides First Precise Explanation for How Lightning Initiates in Nature
In a new paper, Penn State Professor Victor Pasko and his colleagues described how they determined strong electric fields in thunderclouds accelerate electrons that crash into molecules like nitrogen and oxygen, producing X-rays and initiating a deluge of additional electrons and high-energy photons -- the perfect storm from which lightning bolts are born.
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