I hope this means we can improve our study of lightening, it's a very exotic phenomenon. When you're first starting out studying plasma physics, you make some a

I hope this means we can improve our study of lightening, it's a very exotic phenomenon. When you're first starting out studying plasma physics, you make some assumptions that make it easier to work the math, things like EM fields matter more than collisions do, it's generally low density, it's cold, it's relatively steady state. None of these things apply to lightening, an even so energetic and intense it makes antimatter[0] in our very own atmosphere. Obviously we've been able to study it, but if we can aim it we can use much more focused, higher resolution instruments. [0]https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/11jan_antimatter https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/1...