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Lightning is a chemical reaction? Fascinating.
by chiefalchemist 1y ago
Lightning is a chemical reaction? Fascinating.
- daneel_w 1y agoNot quite. The emissions act as an electrically conductive medium. In a roundabout way it's similar to how pure and deionized water is an insulator, but tap water is conductive because of various impurities.
- chiefalchemist 1y agoWell, a chemical is introduced and there’s a reaction. We can nitpick about the details but that’s the crux of it,
- daneel_w 1y agoImagine coughing up those blasé closing words to a topic of physics that scientists are trying to unravel. "Well, we can nitpick about the details, but that's the crux of it."
- chiefalchemist 1y agoImagine not being able to look at things abstractly; to use a different lens. And instead being lazy and taking everything simply at face value, as is, as it’s spoon fed to you. The correct reply was: “Yes. Via that lens it makes me wonder if there are not other similar catalysts that we’ve been missing.” Sorry mate. Small ideas from small minds don’t excite me. Have a nice day.
- lazide 1y agoInterestingly, chemistry is an electrical reaction (electron interactions). So it might be more accurate to say both are mediated through the same underlying force - electromagnetism.