FilterHN

just in case you missed it, all matter carrys a charge, and all space(and matter) has energy radiating through it, making the universe an energy gradient.

sometimes you can see it happening.

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fguerraz

2 hours ago

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So, nothing new?

The cosmic ray hypothesis has been dominant for a few years now.

This magazine…

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JadeNB

10 minutes ago

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> So, nothing new?

> The cosmic ray hypothesis has been dominant for a few years now.

> This magazine…

I think saying "This magazine…" as if the flaws of Quanta are well understood and agreed may need additional elaboration. If you mean that experts have known this—well, the role of Quanta is to disseminate and explain expert research to scientifically literate non-experts; it is not meant to be distributing the latest research itself.

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joshikarthikey

42 minutes ago

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Soooo you are telling me that we still haven't fully understood something as fundamental as lightning and it's still an active area of research...

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JadeNB

9 minutes ago

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Not to be flip, but, depending on what "fully" means, we haven't fully understood much of anything about the real world.

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nephihaha

27 minutes ago

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Never mind this kind of lightning, it gets really interesting when we start to look at ball lightning, which is very real but rarely sighted.

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Tomte

5 minutes ago

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As a child I saw an acted segment about ball lightning in childrens‘ TV, following a person around the house, and had nightmares for a long time afterwards. The thing is spooky as hell.