Why do we perpetuate lies about lightning despite the evidence? In this article, we will examine lightning and lies. 

Introduction

There are 40-100 lightning strikes per second around the planet.

For something that is so common you would think that we have an explanation for lightning.

But that’s where you would be wrong. Because not only do we not have an explanation for lightning but people lie and pretend that we have it all sussed out.

But we know this, don’t we?

You are probably thinking – we do have an explanation for lightning. It’s a basically big form of static electricity.

Just as when we walk across a dry carpet, get charged up, touch a metal door handle and get a shock, so it is with lightning and clouds in thunderstorms, only bigger.

The usual story

You may have even heard an explanation like this one.

Clouds contain ice particles and hail that rub together and get charged up. The negatively charged particles fall to the lower part of the cloud and the positively charged particles to the top.

This causes the positive charges on the ground to build up and eventually there is a spark of lightning between them

This story is being told to children everywhere.

There’s one problem.

It isn’t true.

Why?
Because…Science!

The Evidence

We have done experiments to show that not nearly enough charge build-up in clouds to create lighting with the characteristics that we observe.

And for negative charges being at the bottom and positive at the top – turns out there are positive charges at the bottom too.

So why do we perpetuate the lies?

Covering the Discomfort

Because we don’t have an explanation for something that is very common on the planet.

It’s easier to ignore the scientific fact that the static electricity hypothesis has been disproven than face the fact that we cannot explain something that happens on our planet over 40 times a second.

With the Black Hole Principle – the same mechanism that occurs at the centre of a galaxy occurs in thunderstorms – hence we find antimatter, gamma rays and x-rays in thunderstorms just as we do in black holes. Not to mention water!

We also find bipolar jets in storms just as we find in black holes.

The theory can also explain the power of lightning and thunderstorms because The Black Hole Principle is powered by infinite light!

It’s time we stopped lying to children and paid attention to the scientific facts.