Scientists: Looking for energy from the macroscopic dark matter of "straight" lightning

Because the energy in the universe is far beyond human cognition, the energy of matter we already know is lower than the actual energy in the universe, so scientists all over the world classify it as dark matter and dark energy.

The relationship between dark matter and "straight" lightning

In a paper published today in the journal Physical Review D, researchers from the University of Toronto and Case Western University in Ohio say that the extremely fast passage through the atmosphere creates a "straight channel of ionized plasma. ", this piece of dark matter is called "macro". This can cause the lightning bolt to become a straight line, giving it its distinctive character.

"Macroscopic dark matter is a large class of surrogate particle candidates, which transfer energy mainly through elastic scattering. If large enough, macroscopic dark matter passes through the atmosphere and creates straight channels for ionized plasma,"

"If it had a cross-section of σx⪆6 × 10-9 cm2, under atmospheric conditions favorable for lightning (such as thunderstorms), the plasma channel would be sufficient to induce lightning strikes with a single lead." By contrast, they noted Ordinary lightning is made up of "hundreds or thousands of leads strung together several meters in length."

The macroscopic inducing conditions for "straight" lightning must be sufficiently straight

The speculation is based on a thunderstorm that occurred in the United States on July 6, 2020: even though two lightning bolts were erected on the One World Trade Center, the lightning during the thunderstorm hit Harder in front of the Manhattan skyline in New York City. on the Sun River.

In addition, wind shear or magnetohydrodynamic instability does not alter the apparently rigid macroscopic lightning appearance. "The only photographically documented straight lightning box may not be straight enough to be macroscopically induced," they said.

According to NASA, lightning occurs in charged thunderstorm clouds, which emit energy that drives so-called "lightning strikes" to places of opposite electrical charge: like the ground or into another cloud.

People often confuse dark matter with dark energy, but the two are not the same, and the current understanding of dark matter is limited to knowing what it is not, which is the conclusion drawn by the method of exclusion of all scientists.

Dark matter accounts for more than a quarter of the universe

Some agencies have said that dark matter does not exist in the form of stars and planets visible to humans. Nor does it exist in the form of dark clouds of normal particle matter called baryons, neither antimatter nor a Milky Way-sized black hole.

In an article on NASA's Science website, "By combining theoretical models of the composition of the universe with a set of cosmological observations, scientists have arrived at the composition of the universe we describe above, which is about 68 percent dark energy. , about 27% dark matter, about 5% normal matter.”.

The prevailing theory is that dark matter is made up of elementary particles called "weakly interacting massive particles" (WIMPs), according to a Fox reporter who interviewed the authors of the Smithsonian Magazine on Thursday. It's an idea as opposed to the macro, which the publication claims is traveling through space at speeds between 150 and 300 miles per second.

Nathaniel Stackman, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, told the Smithsonian Institution Journal: "Because these macroparticles are so fast, they're not actually affected by the wind -- so these ion channels are so straight that they can directly through the Earth's atmosphere.".

Stackman and his team believe that a macroparticle that may pass through Earth's atmosphere releases energy that creates a straight channel of ions, and an electrical storm may act as that channel.

But seeing is believing, scientists haven't seen this happen with their own eyes. It is reported that a thunderbolt that appeared in Zimbabwe in 2015 was close, but not worse.

Stackman and the researchers hope to continue their search using the Meteor Camera Network, examining electrical storms on Jupiter and instructing people to examine places where macro dark matter may have left traces, such as granite countertops