Thread 16785535

Okay so this is just weed dude science theory off the top of my head but like how does lightning "know" where the most efficient source of releasing its energy would be? If that is silly well the particle slit experiment is still pretty requiring of explanation. So, at the lowest level, if everything is pixelated, then everything simply moves from one spot to the very next spot, if time is pixelated then same. So if there is any retroactive shit well it doesn't have to solve for any of it because there was no moment of observation or interaction for any of that. And if this is a simulation then that's fine. And idk if there is like a gap between two points like, well there must always be a gap. So idk maybe there is a retroactive movement from one point to the next through a gap but if it's all pixels, then things can only move six ways so there isn't ever going to be a point where particles cross paths. So the gap is explained I guess if there is one. And idk pixels are always just pixels like a object doesn't move across your computer screen it's just different pixels lighting up. So particles themselves aren't even there and everything is just a "wave" of changing pixels

>>16785535 (OP)
>how does lightning "know" where the most efficient source of releasing its energy would be?
It doesn't.
"Current follows the path of least resistance" is an oversimplification.
Current follows all possible paths at once to varying degrees. Paths with less resistance naturally get proportionately more of it. This is kinda like asking how water "knows" to flow out your tap and not through the walls of your plumbing.

The rest of your post isn't coherent.

>>16785535 (OP)
Same way a river "knows" its course. Direction of least resistance.
Pixels are irrelevant, (1) the whole "everything is quantised" idea might be wrong, (2) it's so small it doesn't matter for macro phenomena anyway

>>16785535 (OP)
The universe is not pixelated, anon. You should never mistake quantization for pixelation. They are two quite different principles.Combinations of quantized position values can result in essentially any physical location.

>>16786302
goddamn I hate him so much it's just bs like one time I was at the bar with my whore ex and idk that fucking bitch I swear I just leaned in closer to tell her something and she leaned back, I guess thinking I was going to kiss her? yeah right uggly bitch

Slightly retarded question about lightning here
>Does lightning produce positrons and their subsequent annihilation signatures because a lightning strike exceeds the critical field limit or is it due to electron scattering?

>>16785535 (OP)
The atmosphere is ionized and ionized air conducts, its not ionized equally and the places where charges accumulate are also localized. So its an issue of a bit of current causing more ionization which starts an avalanche.
In a storm the ionization happens due to friction of the rain, each droplet rubs off the air and carries some electrons with it, leaving net positive charge in the air until theres too much to hold back

>>16790377
probably doesnt because that energy is spread among many small strikes so theres likely a terminal speed

>>16790419
Lightning 100% produces positrons and are a confirmed source of terrestrial gamma ray bursts.

>>16790429
very interesting, i didnt know the voltages were so high

>>16790433
I have my own personal theory the US government weaponizes this using a similar methodology, but instead of lightning it's a polariton lasing system.

>>16790433
The article mentions the actual studies, and there is a DTIC PDF about this subject floating around from the AFRL, but for some reason it's exceptionally hard to find now.

>>16790433
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-lightning-chance-antimatter.html

>>16790444
yes i saw it, i just didt know the voltages were so high, at least millions of volts of acceleration between each scattering event

>>16790472
Pretty crazy. The gamma flashes are even long-lived enough to propagate across geomagnetic conjugate points.

>>16785535 (OP)
If I understand it correctly, lightning actually sends out multiple tendrils and the first one that makes contact collapses all the energy into that particular path.

>>16785800
This. There's no "particle slit" shit going on, it's just a massive electric charge moving from one group of ionized particle to the next, depending on how well they conduct it's path until the circuit is completed between earth and cloud. Also, I'm really happy Pam Bondi is deporting or imprisoning all your friends and it's hilarious how little memes are going to change that. Stop sucking the green dick, hophead.