Major Discoveries About Lightning and a Laser Experiment To Control It
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new incredible discoveries about lightning and our new ability to control it using lasers
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z
https://theconversation.com/why-does-lightning-zigzag-at-last-we-have-an-answer-to-the-mystery-195549
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/aca103
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-16-8-5757&id=157189
https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-13-10-2292
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215484119
Another lightning phenomenon: https://youtu.be/n8-TxSiYqVw
Lightning and life on Earth: https://youtu.be/rHPQAOPMVuw
#lightning #laser #physics
0:00 History of Lightning Discoveries and the Iconic Kite Experiment
3:00 Why It's Important to Understand Lightning
5:20 New Research on Lasers and Guiding Lightning
6:55 How It Possibly Works...We Think
8:00 How Zigzags in Lightning Work
9:45 Largest Lightning Ever Found
10:00 Unusual Minerals and Life on Earth
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