Thread:Old Deus/@comment-2089817-20140605220207/@comment-24976013-20140606001144

What about Dark Lightning? "A team of physicists, including Joseph Dwyer at Florida Tech have developed a model of how thunderstorms produce high energy radiation. In this model, instead of lightning, thunderstorms can also result in an electrical breakdown of high-energy electrons and the antimatter equivalent, positrons. The interaction between the electrons and positrons creates explosive growth in some of these high energy particles emitting the observed terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and rapidly discharging the thundercloud, sometimes even faster than normal lightning. Even though abundant gamma-rays are emitted by this process, with little or no visible light, it creates an electrical breakdown within the storms now called "dark lightning" by the scientific community." Wikipedia