Dark lightning

Dark lightning is a shockingly strong, but invisible by-product of thunderstorms in the Earth’s atmosphere. Much like regular lightning, dark lightning is created from the natural process of the build up of electrostatic charged particles within clouds trying to cancel out opposing charges. However, there are two key characteristics of Dark lightning that drastically separate it from regular lightning. These two factors are that Dark lightning is in fact invisible to see with ones eyes and doesn’t radiate any heat or light whatsoever, as regular lightning does, but rather releases bursts of gamma radiation (gamma rays) instead (the gamma rays created by dark lightning may form large clouds of positrons within thunderclouds, without immediately reacting and producing gamma rays).[1]

Possible dangers of Dark Lightning

The gamma-rays emitted by Dark lightning are found to come from such low altitudes that they are emitted from within the storm clouds themselves. With this low emission origin, the air crafts and planes along with the pilots and passengers within them, flying through during thunderstorms are possibly put at great health risks. This risk is due to the possibility that they may be getting exposed to gamma rays produced from the dark lightning that possesses enough energy to pass through the hull of an aircraft and any object or individual(s) inside. The exact effect on humans to the exposure of the Dark Lighting gamma rays is not certain however, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is producing on going computer modeling tests with the aid of their SoftWare for the Optimization of Radiation Detectors (also called SWORD).

History

The unintentional discovery of dark lightning is created with NASA in the year 2010 with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope owned by NASA.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Physicist Finds Mysterious Anti-electron Clouds Inside Thunderstorm". Space Daily. 22 May 2015.

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