Scientists admit lightning is the most dangerous and mysterious phenomenon MOSCOW, may 18 — RIA Novosti, Tatiana Pichugina. Studying lightning for centuries, but their nature is still unclear. As the emerging category in the cloud, what is fireball, why during a thunderstorm emitted gamma rays — these questions have yet to answer. RIA Novosti presents the most current research in the field of atmospheric electricity. “Lightning is an electrical discharge that moves in the atmosphere by a thin hot plasma channel — leader from cloud to earth, between clouds or climb a high building,” says RIA Novosti Alexander Kostinsky, candidate of physico-mathematical Sciences, Deputy Director, MIEM them. A. N. Tikhonov, participant of the international project “the Lightning and their manifestations”, supported by Ministry of education and RSF. For the occurrence of lightning want the cloud. Lifting up, it expands, cools, it forms small water drops, snowflakes, hail and many other
