Guys, electricity does travel at the speed of light...in ideal conditions (depends on conductivity of the medium through which the charges and electrons propagate). Obviously air is a shitty medium for electricity to pass through (high impedance), which slows down the speed of the electricity (which would normally travel at light speed).
Still super-fast though. The main bolt when it connects with the ground goes from the clouds to the ground in...what? One, two frames? Damn nature, you scary
@angelfromlivinghell what should I say to this? why don't you at least look at other comments before you make an idiot of yourself like few another morons here..?
This video was taken by National Geographic photographer named TIM SAMARAS. I was able to meet him last week at a NI conference. He also does a lot of tornado experiments.
Why WOULD it be fake? You know what would be more unbelieveable? If it DIDN'T look like this. Don't flame something if you don't understand how it works, and leave the uploader alone!
As to the huge heap of "lightning goes from the ground up" comments, it really depends on the type of lightning (not all lightning even involves the ground at all) and what part of the strike you call "lightning." For example, in this case, the leaders obviously trail from the cloud downward, but the main current channel once connected propagates from the ground. So it really depends on how you define your terms.
LOL! I just learnt about this- the people who think this is wrong aren't vuz guess what? my Science teacher has a PHD and HE showed us this video. Lightning works when the cloud becomes positively charged underneath. At the same time the ground becomes really neagtively charged. Also, you can't really see it but, lightning first goes from the ground up towards the positive charge and then you get the downwards bit you always see. Just cuz your stupid, doesn't mean we all are! :D
@Nikirockztar I just read about different types of lightning on Wikipedia and there is ground to cloud, cloud to cloud and cloud to ground. Maybe if people did more research then they would know what they are talking about. I am glad that it appears like you do though.
@kevlar8686 I just found it amusing that because people don't understand what they are seeing, or because they are too ignorant to research it themselves that they think it is fake. There are a few types of lightning, I mean, they could have at least researched one of them! I am glad that someone took the time to research it though, it appears that not every YouTuber is ignorant! :-P
@Nikirockztar Are you fuckin retarded? I see the whole thing in slow motion. The lightning came from the cloud, not the ground. Or is your monitor upside down?
@reddog418 You're calling me fucking retarded? Try look at yourself! I mean come on! Even the UPLOADER didn't disagree with me! that makes YOU stupid and US smart. Re-think your facts. Google it. Yahoo answers has the right answer. If you chose not to search it its your own loss. But don't come bitching to me because you're stupid. The man has a PHD for a reason. He wouldn't be teaching me and my class it if it was wrong. Btw- I passed that exam. You clearly didn't.
@Nikirockztar Are you watching a different video than I am? This is a cloud-to-ground lightning strike. It's not coming from the ground. Where'd he get his PhD? Hewlett-Packard University?
The idea that all lightning comes from the ground is also ridiculous. Lightning can also pass between clouds without ever touching the ground. Who is your professor? I'd like his email and attempt to stop him from spreading false truths.
@Nikirockztar And yes you are retarded. The uploader DISAGREED with you and pointed out this is staccato lightning, a CLOUD to GROUND lightning strike. And then you replied that you didn't know what the hell he was talking about, so it looks like your PhD "teacher" failed to fully explain this phenomenon to you. You know what, for the next thunderstorm grab hold of the tallest metal object, and if you die from the lightning before it reaches the clouds, then I'll know you were right!!
That was really cool. The first part looked like fireworks. Lightning hit right outside my house once and I saw the bolt through both front windows, the edge looked like a saw with little baby lightning bolts coming off. The power was out but all the lights and appliances came on and ran for a good thirty seconds with this super loud buzz. There was green glass on the ground outside where it hit. It was cool after I knew I'd lived to tell tell about it.
yah this looks like lighnting enough i guess how can this be fake? i was just looking for a lightning vid that goes up, i was driving one time and lightning just flew up in front of me, luckily i was driving slow, or perhaps it would've hit the car? so bright the lightning
@KaylinJH No they don't. The whole process begins in the cloud, goes to the ground, then goes back to the cloud, then goes from the entire cloud to the ground. That's how lightning works.
@momsstickytoes lol look up Sprites please, then come tell me how lightning works when most scientist are still a little puzzled by its behaviour some times miss know it all
@KaylinJH You're making yourself look very silly. Sprites are not lightning they're a cold plasma phenomena and look nothing like lightning. Scientist's have a clear understanding how lightning works.
f8tdfire clearly thinks they travel from the ground up not from the cloud up in to the sky, which is what sprites do.
Very incredible stuff i had seen this on a discovery show that i forgot the name of and was looking for it because the footage was so incredible! and Donovan this is truely how lightning works what youy see comming down are step leaders they do not travel at the speeed of light like DuskAF said only the current travels at the speed of light.
donovan: lightning does not travel at the speed of light, lightning is a flow of electrons that only moves around 60 000 meters in a second (130 000 mph.) which means it certainly can be captured by a high speed camera. photons really have nothing to do with lightning bolts aside from lets us see them..
frank i have no idea where you got that number, it reminds of C but again electrons do not flow at the speed of light, only the current does
donovan3995.. no, it is not obviously fake. i'm quite certain that it's not. Yes, very sophisticated, extremely high framerate cameras do exist and can capture a lightning bolt strike, which goes at around 224k mph (light is 650+ million mph). Digital cameras exist that can run at over one million frames per second, and a professor I am doing research with at my university mentioned that the LHC detectors run at approximately 600 million fps. So yes, a camera CAN slow down lightning that much.
so you are saying we can see light travel over the length of a football field in 200 frames? THat is pure grade A bullshit dude. Go back to physics study photon properties.
@donovan3955 the lightning doesnt travel at the speed of light, because lightning isn't light. it is just electricity caused by electrons as duskaf said.
@donovan3955 Lightning doesn't travel even close to the speed of light. Light speed is a theoretical maximum that nothing massive can reach including electrons. Lightning was estimated to reach a maximum of 1/2 light speed with most of it much slower. The only part of the video that may be close to that speed is around 0:05 and the flow from cloud to ground there seems to be less than a frame long. Before that, the electrons are moving more like 1/1000 of light while searching for a good path.
excuse me. do you know what a HIGH SPEED CAMERA is? a high speed camera takes over an average of 6500 frames A SECOND. 5 seconds of footage played back at a avrage of 100 frames or less can last over a minute. please get your fucking facts right.
the leaders travel down from the storm cloud, and all they do is "burn" a path to the ground for the electrons to follow, the streamers (you can't see them in this video) stretch up from the ground and meet the leaders, then electrons flow on all parts of the path simultaneously.
Its like a race at the beginning. Follow those little sparks the one that hits teh ground first gets the brunt of the bolt of lightning. which is cool the think that lighting strike randomly and also makes sense why it hits the tallest object usually.
that lightning taught naruto shadow clones
xTheDeathSaintx 1 month ago
@angelfromlivinghell came back to call you an idiot again.
idiot
StartSelect1 1 month ago
@angelfromlivinghell you idiot
StartSelect1 1 month ago
@angelfromlivinghell
Your brain is in the ground.
Zerodimensions 4 months ago
So cool!
ProductofTutorials 4 months ago
The way lightning works:
"Okay guys: race to the ground! First one there is the winner! GO!"
"Wheeeeeeew!"
"Wheeew!"
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeew!" (Tobuscus SFX here)
"HELLZ YEAH! I WO-"
BOOM!
BingtheLizard 5 months ago
Dangerous when grounded. haha
seinfan9 5 months ago
Lightning- "lets see...not here....not here...no...not here...RIGHT THERE!"
alex223 6 months ago
Guys, electricity does travel at the speed of light...in ideal conditions (depends on conductivity of the medium through which the charges and electrons propagate). Obviously air is a shitty medium for electricity to pass through (high impedance), which slows down the speed of the electricity (which would normally travel at light speed).
Still super-fast though. The main bolt when it connects with the ground goes from the clouds to the ground in...what? One, two frames? Damn nature, you scary
Ch33zyph33r 6 months ago 14
@Ch33zyph33r Whoa... looks like some comments are written with someone who has a brain! I didn't expect that anymore...
TearonCZ 6 months ago 6
@TearonCZ And almost everything in it was correct. The main bolt goes from the ground to the clouds
HafwidsHalali 2 months ago
@angelfromlivinghell what should I say to this? why don't you at least look at other comments before you make an idiot of yourself like few another morons here..?
thank you...
TearonCZ 6 months ago 11
This video was taken by National Geographic photographer named TIM SAMARAS. I was able to meet him last week at a NI conference. He also does a lot of tornado experiments.
sambuchi 6 months ago
That is a cool path-finding algorithm right there.
dvdlesher 7 months ago
It's fake because lightening travels at speed of light...I don't think cameras can record it. Cool though
JimmyFounder 7 months ago
@JimmyFounder omg, another opinion like this and i will kill myself...
lightning is ELECTRICITY, not LIGHT!
TearonCZ 7 months ago
@TearonCZ i know but it travels at the speed of light
SwimminGabe 7 months ago
@SwimminGabe yeah right... would you please at least TRY to read something about it before you make an idiot of yourself?
write "speed of lightning" into google and click first link...
TearonCZ 7 months ago 5
@JimmyFounder Are you sure your name isn't Jimmy FLOUNDER? This has to be one of the DUMBEST posts I have ever read on YouTube. Congratulations!
tritonrocks 6 months ago
@tritonrocks I wholeheartedly agree !! (he must be an American)
boundaryzero 6 months ago
@boundaryzero Nah, he's just STUPID
tritonrocks 6 months ago
@JimmyFounder fuggin facepalm.
TheBeerfist 6 months ago
Note how when the lightning strikes the ground, it pulsates for a second transferring the energy to the ground. It's amazing.
Rawrdinosaurxo 7 months ago 2
when does it go back....
ballinslippers 8 months ago
Why WOULD it be fake? You know what would be more unbelieveable? If it DIDN'T look like this. Don't flame something if you don't understand how it works, and leave the uploader alone!
PatchCornAdams722 8 months ago 2
This is actually real. On Richard Hammonds Invisible Worlds he recorded lightning in Ultra Slow Motion and it was slower than this. This isn't fake.
Nathanhi89 9 months ago
needs a rainbow exploding in the background next time
mrblahboogi 10 months ago
good power rangers commercial
EitanFri 11 months ago
As to the huge heap of "lightning goes from the ground up" comments, it really depends on the type of lightning (not all lightning even involves the ground at all) and what part of the strike you call "lightning." For example, in this case, the leaders obviously trail from the cloud downward, but the main current channel once connected propagates from the ground. So it really depends on how you define your terms.
pardusardens 1 year ago
LOL! I just learnt about this- the people who think this is wrong aren't vuz guess what? my Science teacher has a PHD and HE showed us this video. Lightning works when the cloud becomes positively charged underneath. At the same time the ground becomes really neagtively charged. Also, you can't really see it but, lightning first goes from the ground up towards the positive charge and then you get the downwards bit you always see. Just cuz your stupid, doesn't mean we all are! :D
Nikirockztar 1 year ago 4
@Nikirockztar
Did you ever hear about the Staccato lightning?
TearonCZ 1 year ago
@TearonCZ - No I haven't! Care to share? :)
Nikirockztar 1 year ago
@Nikirockztar
Staccato Lightning
A Cloud to Ground (CG) lightning discharge which appears as a single very bright, short-duration stroke, often with considerable branching.
or may I suggest you to UTFG? :)
TearonCZ 1 year ago 2
@Nikirockztar I just read about different types of lightning on Wikipedia and there is ground to cloud, cloud to cloud and cloud to ground. Maybe if people did more research then they would know what they are talking about. I am glad that it appears like you do though.
kevlar8686 10 months ago
@kevlar8686 I just found it amusing that because people don't understand what they are seeing, or because they are too ignorant to research it themselves that they think it is fake. There are a few types of lightning, I mean, they could have at least researched one of them! I am glad that someone took the time to research it though, it appears that not every YouTuber is ignorant! :-P
Nikirockztar 10 months ago
@Nikirockztar Are you fuckin retarded? I see the whole thing in slow motion. The lightning came from the cloud, not the ground. Or is your monitor upside down?
reddog418 7 months ago
@reddog418 You're calling me fucking retarded? Try look at yourself! I mean come on! Even the UPLOADER didn't disagree with me! that makes YOU stupid and US smart. Re-think your facts. Google it. Yahoo answers has the right answer. If you chose not to search it its your own loss. But don't come bitching to me because you're stupid. The man has a PHD for a reason. He wouldn't be teaching me and my class it if it was wrong. Btw- I passed that exam. You clearly didn't.
Nikirockztar 7 months ago
@Nikirockztar Are you watching a different video than I am? This is a cloud-to-ground lightning strike. It's not coming from the ground. Where'd he get his PhD? Hewlett-Packard University?
The idea that all lightning comes from the ground is also ridiculous. Lightning can also pass between clouds without ever touching the ground. Who is your professor? I'd like his email and attempt to stop him from spreading false truths.
reddog418 7 months ago
@Nikirockztar And yes you are retarded. The uploader DISAGREED with you and pointed out this is staccato lightning, a CLOUD to GROUND lightning strike. And then you replied that you didn't know what the hell he was talking about, so it looks like your PhD "teacher" failed to fully explain this phenomenon to you. You know what, for the next thunderstorm grab hold of the tallest metal object, and if you die from the lightning before it reaches the clouds, then I'll know you were right!!
reddog418 7 months ago
@Nikirockztar And because I feel that you are dumb enough to miss the point: en-dot-wikipedia-dot-org/wiki/Lightning#Cloud-to-ground_lightning
Cloud-to-ground. It exists. And this is what this video demonstrates. Now stop trolling.
reddog418 7 months ago
there's your first problem...lightning goes from the ground up
rickstewproductions 1 year ago
aaaaawesome
TheRioterKiss 1 year ago
thats so cool looking hhaha
TheFaske1234 1 year ago
thats the coolest thing ive ever seen. i just pooped my pants
GuysTheOther 1 year ago
Did any one notice?...All the Branches in the of current made a run for the ground and the one which reached first made way for the whole package...
AWESOME
aafrika0 1 year ago 3
@aafrika0 i didnt until i read your coment, this is crazy, is like race to the bottom!!
RobPP25 1 year ago
oh wow so it like branches out before the initial lightning hits the ground? Thats tight :D
mynameisalexyu 1 year ago
that was so beautiful
maurorock445 1 year ago
So this is what stepped leaders from a lightning bolt looks like!
Roncace 1 year ago
That was really cool. The first part looked like fireworks. Lightning hit right outside my house once and I saw the bolt through both front windows, the edge looked like a saw with little baby lightning bolts coming off. The power was out but all the lights and appliances came on and ran for a good thirty seconds with this super loud buzz. There was green glass on the ground outside where it hit. It was cool after I knew I'd lived to tell tell about it.
bladeofbattousai 1 year ago
yah this looks like lighnting enough i guess how can this be fake? i was just looking for a lightning vid that goes up, i was driving one time and lightning just flew up in front of me, luckily i was driving slow, or perhaps it would've hit the car? so bright the lightning
Navlek79 1 year ago
bitching!!!
chaddexter 1 year ago
no THAT is mega slow
swimiles121 1 year ago
All the people that think its fake are clearly dillusional. Its called lightning. This is what happens when it is slowed down. Get it?
kfrizzle001 1 year ago 24
...doesnt lightning actually travel up?
f8tdfire 1 year ago
@f8tdfire some forms of lightning do yes.
KaylinJH 1 year ago
@KaylinJH No they don't. The whole process begins in the cloud, goes to the ground, then goes back to the cloud, then goes from the entire cloud to the ground. That's how lightning works.
momsstickytoes 1 year ago
@momsstickytoes lol look up Sprites please, then come tell me how lightning works when most scientist are still a little puzzled by its behaviour some times miss know it all
KaylinJH 1 year ago
@KaylinJH You're making yourself look very silly. Sprites are not lightning they're a cold plasma phenomena and look nothing like lightning. Scientist's have a clear understanding how lightning works.
f8tdfire clearly thinks they travel from the ground up not from the cloud up in to the sky, which is what sprites do.
2000drpain86 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
this is fake!!!!
ubkcTV 1 year ago
@ubkcTV
@ultimateclubpenguin
yes, you are fake...
I just love you guys... I don't understand it, so it's fake...
TearonCZ 1 year ago 10
hey can you please tell me what program and camera you used?! pleasee!
extremeslowmotion 1 year ago
LIGHTNING BOLT!
Olaecool 2 years ago
Noice.
fonna 2 years ago
Very incredible stuff i had seen this on a discovery show that i forgot the name of and was looking for it because the footage was so incredible! and Donovan this is truely how lightning works what youy see comming down are step leaders they do not travel at the speeed of light like DuskAF said only the current travels at the speed of light.
pivotmaster93 2 years ago
nm frank misread what you said, for some reason thought you were saying light and lightning moved at the same speed, my bad.
DuskAF 2 years ago 2
donovan: lightning does not travel at the speed of light, lightning is a flow of electrons that only moves around 60 000 meters in a second (130 000 mph.) which means it certainly can be captured by a high speed camera. photons really have nothing to do with lightning bolts aside from lets us see them..
frank i have no idea where you got that number, it reminds of C but again electrons do not flow at the speed of light, only the current does
DuskAF 2 years ago 2
Funny, with the sparks at the beginning I can't help but imagine smelling the ozone. ;)
itekisan 2 years ago
Here's a fun fact, which makes it incredible that people survive lightning strikes:
The surface of the sun: About 6,000 degrees Celcius.
A bolt of lightning: 29727 degrees Celcius.
Look it up, I am not bullshitting you guys.
Master0Shake 2 years ago
Yeah I've heard that before to, but who REALLY knows the temp. of the sun's surface...?
masscashstacks 2 years ago
0:03 Spark 1: Right lads wheres the ground?.....
0:05 Spark 2: Found it!!!
0pinion8ted 2 years ago 2
it must of been really really slow because lighting travel ****** fast
159357dan 2 years ago 2
Lightning is also hotter than the surface of the sun. I always thought that was very interesting.
Master0Shake 2 years ago
and lighting travels upwards also, it goes up not down, the video made it seem going down
159357dan 2 years ago 2
wow, i didnt know anyone else on youtube knew that
donovan3955 2 years ago
yep but strangley the surface of the sun isnt the hottest part :D the corna is waaaaaay hotter in the millions of degrees if I recall
KaylinJH 2 years ago
its fake obviously. no camera can slow lightning that much
donovan3955 2 years ago
its almost impossible to slow down to the speed of light
159357dan 2 years ago
donovan3995.. no, it is not obviously fake. i'm quite certain that it's not. Yes, very sophisticated, extremely high framerate cameras do exist and can capture a lightning bolt strike, which goes at around 224k mph (light is 650+ million mph). Digital cameras exist that can run at over one million frames per second, and a professor I am doing research with at my university mentioned that the LHC detectors run at approximately 600 million fps. So yes, a camera CAN slow down lightning that much.
FrankTh3Tank1 2 years ago 2
so you are saying we can see light travel over the length of a football field in 200 frames? THat is pure grade A bullshit dude. Go back to physics study photon properties.
donovan3955 2 years ago
@donovan3955 the lightning doesnt travel at the speed of light, because lightning isn't light. it is just electricity caused by electrons as duskaf said.
gamenern 1 year ago 2
@donovan3955
You are completely wrong and in case, you should pick up your books again.
It is not light that travells the 200 frames but Electricity.
Bythesw23 1 year ago 2
@donovan3955 Lightning doesn't travel even close to the speed of light. Light speed is a theoretical maximum that nothing massive can reach including electrons. Lightning was estimated to reach a maximum of 1/2 light speed with most of it much slower. The only part of the video that may be close to that speed is around 0:05 and the flow from cloud to ground there seems to be less than a frame long. Before that, the electrons are moving more like 1/1000 of light while searching for a good path.
joshig1983 1 year ago
excuse me. do you know what a HIGH SPEED CAMERA is? a high speed camera takes over an average of 6500 frames A SECOND. 5 seconds of footage played back at a avrage of 100 frames or less can last over a minute. please get your fucking facts right.
ifungij 2 years ago
LOL, a lightning strike is clearly less than a fifth of a second
donovan3955 2 years ago
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CrystalFarm 2 years ago
the leaders travel down from the storm cloud, and all they do is "burn" a path to the ground for the electrons to follow, the streamers (you can't see them in this video) stretch up from the ground and meet the leaders, then electrons flow on all parts of the path simultaneously.
boredshorte 2 years ago
wow
ootplayer37 3 years ago
Its like a race at the beginning. Follow those little sparks the one that hits teh ground first gets the brunt of the bolt of lightning. which is cool the think that lighting strike randomly and also makes sense why it hits the tallest object usually.
cmstewart87 3 years ago
Awesome!
james0321 3 years ago
wow
mariofan901 3 years ago