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August 12, 2008
Lighting in Slow Motion
The videos provides a super slow motion lighting strike. A separate lighting related item, from NASA: Gigantic Jets:
They are extremely rare but tremendously powerful. Gigantic jets are a newly discovered type of lightning discharge between some thunderstorms and the Earth’s ionosphere high above them. Pictured above is one such jet caught by accident by a meteor camera in Oklahoma, USA. The gigantic jet, at the lower left, traversed perhaps 70 kilometers in just under one second.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Wow thats so awesome! Whats next? Slow motion light so we can see the particles?
That would be really awesome though.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
We have several posts on slowing down light: Delaying the Flow of Light on a Silicon Chip - Putting the Brakes on Light Speed