Lightning Doesn't Take The Shortest Path

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  • Lightning Doesn't Take The Shortest Path. But Why?
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  • @sleadheadmen662
    @sleadheadmen662 2 роки тому +13150

    So basically I should hold a massive glass rod in the air during a storm.

    • @freecleets
      @freecleets 2 роки тому +1847

      And then stand far away from it

    • @FantasticExplorers
      @FantasticExplorers 2 роки тому +2222

      Yes, yes, yes exactly! Just make sure that life insurance policy is filled out well (for your children)!

    • @tomtom9184
      @tomtom9184 2 роки тому +272

      I believe so. I have one now, and I'll let you know how it goes. 😆

    • @icraftcrafts8685
      @icraftcrafts8685 2 роки тому +314

      Only if you need 21.1 jigawatts

    • @JosszzoL
      @JosszzoL 2 роки тому +377

      something tells me you’re close to inventing lightning rods

  • @SammytheStampede
    @SammytheStampede 2 роки тому +1137

    Lightning, water, fire and politicians take the path of least resistance. Except politicians make the most damage.

  • @Gold63Beast
    @Gold63Beast 2 роки тому +8569

    I’ve never heard of the saying that lightning takes the “shortest path”. It’s always been the path of least resistance.

    • @civilizedmonkey1795
      @civilizedmonkey1795 2 роки тому +573

      True, but in my head (and probably other's) I always thought least resistance = shortest path

    • @awhite3747
      @awhite3747 2 роки тому +178

      To be fair, he does explain the difference.

    • @Ducky69247
      @Ducky69247 2 роки тому +160

      Sure he does, but was it really understood to not be the case, making an explanation of the difference necessary? Maybe I just had good teachers, whom I can credit for my assumption that the difference was already pretty obvious?

    • @TB-wi3sq
      @TB-wi3sq 2 роки тому +95

      Electricity doesn‘t always take the path of the lowest resistance. It takes every path, but highly concentrated on the path with the lowest resistance.
      I’m sure it differs from area to area (and school, education, intelligence,…..), what people think and say/teach. Where I live most uneducated people, even most older teachers from non-technical schools, think and teach, that electricity always takes the shortest path. Pretty sad for one of the most developed countries.
      In an homogenous already ionized material, like a plate of metal, the shortest path thing isn‘t that false, except that electricity flows almost entirely on the surface.

    • @SoulDelSol
      @SoulDelSol 2 роки тому +60

      ​@@TB-wi3sq I've literally never heard or thought for a moment that it takes shortest path before. It clearly branches. I

  • @creativeclubccdevadathantd1133
    @creativeclubccdevadathantd1133 2 роки тому +113

    Moral of the story:
    Shortest path is not always the easiest

    • @lookupverazhou8599
      @lookupverazhou8599 2 роки тому +11

      But it always takes the path of shortest time.

    • @poopstain9333
      @poopstain9333 6 місяців тому

      On the other hand, size doesn't matter.

    • @ShomeAvi
      @ShomeAvi 4 місяці тому

      Or
      Even nature doesn't take shortcuts

  • @IzzyBoiYT
    @IzzyBoiYT 2 роки тому +1885

    It goes with the flow... Literally.

    • @SoulDelSol
      @SoulDelSol 2 роки тому +45

      It is the flow. Wherever it goes the flow follows

    • @SbF6H
      @SbF6H 2 роки тому

      Your notion of currents is plainly wrong.

    • @armstrong9497
      @armstrong9497 2 роки тому

      @@SbF6H sho

    • @SbF6H
      @SbF6H 2 роки тому +1

      @@armstrong9497 Your arms ain't strong enough man

    • @armstrong9497
      @armstrong9497 2 роки тому

      @@SbF6H i know 😔

  • @sayan64
    @sayan64 2 роки тому +385

    Instructions unclear: I held a big glass rod in air during a thunderstorm. That's how my previous life ended.

    • @lunaticbseker
      @lunaticbseker 2 роки тому +20

      Sounds like an anime show title

    • @AndrewAce.
      @AndrewAce. 2 роки тому +25

      You sure respawned quickly...

    • @longbow6416
      @longbow6416 Рік тому +5

      Did you see the respawn counter? Hopefully you quick saved beforehand?

    • @aqilaiman9739
      @aqilaiman9739 Рік тому +6

      Reincarnate in another world after getting hitted by freaking thunder

    • @AJ-fr9tf
      @AJ-fr9tf Рік тому +1

      @@aqilaiman9739 with super powers

  • @bengsynthmusic
    @bengsynthmusic 2 роки тому +976

    Thor: And that's why I'm sometimes late.

  • @zeroreyortsed3624
    @zeroreyortsed3624 2 роки тому +56

    Some would call it, "the path of least resistance."

  • @dougieherbert2000
    @dougieherbert2000 2 роки тому +573

    When designing high voltage electrical systems, we talk about both the "clearance" and the "creepage" distances. The first being the distance between conductors required, and the second being the distance along a surface of an insulator between conductors required. That's why the structures that hold high voltage wires to a pylon are ribbed: to increase the creepage distance

    • @flaplaya
      @flaplaya 2 роки тому +24

      You sir have my dream job. Ultra high voltage electrical engineer. Surprised you didn't mention the rib shape of insulators as the arc follows that much longer path.

    • @pawn5253
      @pawn5253 2 роки тому

      I thought it was ribbed for her pleasure.

    • @MrGothicruler666
      @MrGothicruler666 2 роки тому +1

      I thought they were ribbed for her pleasure

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. 2 роки тому +8

      So can you answer me one question?
      Why is it, that the air around a piece of isolator is easier to ionize?
      I've got a few theories that would explain this,but i am not sure,which one is right, or if there os another.
      1. on the surface of an isolator, there are Atoms with less bounds. So while they are bounded in the inside of the material, on the outside there are none. And thus in the inside of the material theres a slight partial negative charge, while at the outside theres a partial positive charge. Thus a electron could get attracted by the positive charge, if it gets near enough, and then jump from atom to atom. This might form a state similar to the electron gas in a electric conducter, and thus "comduct" electricity, which also helps electrons farther away to travel across the air,cause this first electron flow might also ionize the air to begin with.
      2. If the electrons go across rhe rod,they cant go inside the rod, so the path is forced to be more streight, and not wiggled due to statistical movements of air molecules. Thus the path actually is shorter.
      3. The whole surface might get electrostatically charged up like a capacitor (resistance might be high, but not infinity), and then this layer of electrons might conduct electricity.
      4. It might be due to the roughness of the surface. So if a few electron can make it to a sharp point on the surface, there will be created a high electric field near it, which might easily ionize the air around it, for the electrons to jump to the next sharp point on the surface and so on. Buft then i wonder,why this is happening on smooth surfaces liks glass, too.

    • @ChemEDan
      @ChemEDan 2 роки тому +1

      wtf? I need someone to explain this

  • @yezki8
    @yezki8 Рік тому +12

    Lightning: "I think this specific dude's head is a better place to ionize than the tree beside him, for no apparent reason"

    • @lio-langley997
      @lio-langley997 Рік тому +1

      Electricity is weird lol, if you happen to be near an arc of that size you will get a piece of it but not all. Due to the fact that something like copper Is not acting like a medium to distract a good amount of charge

  • @nickhammac
    @nickhammac 2 роки тому +3058

    My mom told me a story about a girl in a field playing soccer when she was a kid.
    She said her hair just stood straight up like someone was holding a balloon above her head so she started running. Within three or four seconds, lightning struck like 5 feet from where she was standing with no storms, just some clouds in the sky.
    Just a weird story, this reminded me of that because my mom was only 30 feet or so away and didn't feel anything. The girl apparently could feel it going through her, like a strong electrical pulse or something. She said it spooked all of them from playing for a while.

    • @vomm
      @vomm 2 роки тому +408

      Maybe it were aliens or the government who wanted to wipe her out with an ion beam.

    • @mrpigeo
      @mrpigeo 2 роки тому +529

      thats what happens when lightning is about to strike where you are, nothing weird

    • @kalengkong
      @kalengkong 2 роки тому +81

      Amazing. Thanks for sharing

    • @kitsachie.
      @kitsachie. 2 роки тому +243

      You ever ionize you hand by rubbing it on wool then run your hand over your arm?
      Hair stands up and follows your hand, it's the same thing with lightening in the sky.

    • @bbaucom2
      @bbaucom2 2 роки тому +442

      She was feeling the ion trail as it formed. There is one in the cloud reaching down and one on the ground reaching up. When they connect the discharge occurs.

  • @jonathanf3604
    @jonathanf3604 2 роки тому +74

    Absolutely devastated that he never said the path of least resistance 😔

    • @lio-langley997
      @lio-langley997 Рік тому

      Yeah an abundance of positives love an abundance of negatives, give it enough of each and you get an arc at a large scale. I am fairly new to the concept, but I also know the amperes rating of a human is far less than a healthy supply of - and + of this scale. The "Potential" (V) is there, the speed of charge (A) is various, but mostly fatal

    • @Hj61S827
      @Hj61S827 Рік тому +1

      Seriously, no one ever claims electricity takes the shortest path… cept the geys

  • @paul_warner
    @paul_warner 2 роки тому +306

    "no, Mr Franklin, I don't think it's possible to build a glass kite"

    • @helper_bot
      @helper_bot 2 роки тому +35

      "skill issue, William," said Benjamin to his Son (1752).

    • @Goku17yen
      @Goku17yen Рік тому

      Lmao

  • @CrimsonAkato
    @CrimsonAkato 2 роки тому +83

    I once left my classes and it was gonna be a 40 minute trip back home
    and suddenly the worst thunderstorm started, I was out in the open no trees , no buildings , just walking next to the highway , and first I took out my umbrella cuz I didn't wanna be wet , but a lighting strike happened only 23 steps away from me , the sudden light absolutely horrified me and I temporarily went blind for like 15 seconds , I instantly closed my umbrella shoved it in my bag and just said " oh well screw it I rather be wet then dead " and just started sprinting home , later I heard a firefighter truck and noticed off in the distance black smoke something was clearly burning and it just scared me even me , I never ran home faster in my life , when I got home I quickly just ran to the bathroom and started to squeeze all water from my clothes, those wet clothes felt like I was carrying very heavy bags
    I hope to never experience that again

    • @lailoutherand
      @lailoutherand Рік тому +2

      bro its a miracle you were able to survive

    • @johngrant9452
      @johngrant9452 Рік тому +1

      Exactly 23 steps? Are we talking like big steps or lil steps? 🤔

    • @hector4913
      @hector4913 6 місяців тому

      @@johngrant9452 just....steps !😅
      btw thanks for sharing @CrimsonAkato...😮

  • @colonelb
    @colonelb 2 роки тому +945

    A good way to think of it is pushing your way through a crowd, you go this way, and that way as some folks are more willing to move than others, it's not well-planned it just sort of happens that way.

    • @anonymousinfinido2540
      @anonymousinfinido2540 2 роки тому +59

      good analogy

    • @Anastaecia
      @Anastaecia 2 роки тому +71

      So...the path of least resistance, which is how science describes this kind of movement relatively concisely.

    • @colonelb
      @colonelb 2 роки тому +106

      @@Anastaecia yes exactly, but some folks may have a hard time making a mental picture of why the path of least resistence isn't a straight line, but most folks have encountered that randomness in moving through a crowd so it's a decent analogy for anyone who may not understand "path of least resistance" at first.

    • @tyranmcgrathmnkklkl
      @tyranmcgrathmnkklkl 2 роки тому +19

      Great analogy. The people are the air particles and you are the lightning.

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 2 роки тому +5

      I walk in straight line, move beach get out the way.

  • @fauji1737
    @fauji1737 Рік тому +12

    You should give physics lectures through demonstration like these. They will be the best lectures in the world.
    You are really great at explaining any difficult subject in easy understanding way.

  • @Bremend
    @Bremend 2 роки тому +146

    So, lightning is likely to strike the same place twice if there has been no change to the ionization zone

    • @TheStaniG
      @TheStaniG 2 роки тому +8

      Yes.

    • @danieljensen2626
      @danieljensen2626 2 роки тому +20

      Yes, in fact it's pretty common for a single lightning flash (lasting about a second) to have 5-15 strikes to the same spot.

    • @GlennC789
      @GlennC789 2 роки тому +25

      It's a complete myth that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Tall buildings with lightning rods on top might be struck a hundred times in a year in some regions.

    • @oddlyspecificmath
      @oddlyspecificmath 2 роки тому +2

      Too, the *return stroke* is the brilliant thing we associate with lightning. Search: _hyperphysics lightning sequence_ for a nice breakdown.

    • @TheSilverShadow17
      @TheSilverShadow17 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@danieljensen2626 Wouldn't it be closer to around 50 strikes per second?

  • @jswanza6317
    @jswanza6317 2 роки тому

    The fact you still continue to find something interesting to record and let us see like everyday is so amazing. Thanks so much

  • @dungeonpastor
    @dungeonpastor 2 роки тому +52

    The path of least... Resistance

  • @swagwoke85
    @swagwoke85 Рік тому +2

    I don't ever remember lightning taking the shortest path always remember being taught that lightning takes the path of least resistance

  • @agustinrosas9675
    @agustinrosas9675 2 роки тому +8

    One day we will have many Nobel Prize winners that will say, “It all started this one day that I saw an action lab short and that’s how I got into science” ❤ you guys are the best!

  • @2010zagadka
    @2010zagadka Рік тому +1

    AKA the path of least resistance. A fundamental concept in understanding electricity.

  • @georgeo162
    @georgeo162 2 роки тому +28

    How does an insulator affect the conductivity of the air next to it? We need a separate video!

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. 2 роки тому +2

      I've got a few theories that would explain this,but i am not sure,which one is right, or if there is another.
      1. on the surface of an isolator, there are Atoms with less bounds. So while they are bounded in the inside of the material, on the outside there are none. And thus in the inside of the material theres a slight partial negative charge, while at the outside theres a partial positive charge. Thus a electron could get attracted by the positive charge, if it gets near enough, and then jump from atom to atom. This might form a state similar to the electron gas in a electric conducter, and thus "comduct" electricity, which also helps electrons farther away to travel across the air,cause this first electron flow might also ionize the air to begin with.
      2. If the electrons go across rhe rod,they cant go inside the rod, so the path is forced to be more streight, and not wiggled due to statistical movements of air molecules. Thus the path actually is shorter.
      3. The whole surface might get electrostatically charged up like a capacitor (resistance might be high, but not infinity), and then this layer of electrons might conduct electricity.
      4. It might be due to the roughness of the surface. So if a few electron can make it to a sharp point on the surface, there will be created a high electric field near it, which might easily ionize the air around it, for the electrons to jump to the next sharp point on the surface and so on. Buft then i wonder,why this is happening on smooth surfaces liks glass, too.

  • @RufotrisRootedRockhound
    @RufotrisRootedRockhound 5 місяців тому +1

    I like to watch the live lighting maps on my weather tracking and have noticed the strikes hit the beaches and sand dunes more than anywhere else. This makes sense as the dust from the sands would allow for easier ionizing!

  • @THE1FIREHAWK
    @THE1FIREHAWK 2 роки тому +4

    UA-cam came in clutch giving you the perfect auto generated thumbnail lol

  • @wlockuz4467
    @wlockuz4467 2 роки тому +1

    The Electroboom and The Slow Mo Guys collab dives so much deeper into this!

  • @scissors7904
    @scissors7904 2 роки тому +6

    I love this channel , it’s really informative ❤

  • @alexpurdymusic
    @alexpurdymusic 11 місяців тому

    I thought this was gonna be a metaphor for living a creative life

  • @diehardorchids
    @diehardorchids Рік тому +3

    The other thing that’s crazy to think about is, all of this happens in less than a millisecond.

  • @whi2gan
    @whi2gan 4 місяці тому +1

    *Watches because I have an irrational fear of lightning*
    👁️👄👁️

  • @calebyoung6870
    @calebyoung6870 2 роки тому +3

    What is that machine he has? Looks pretty neat and I would definitely buy one

  • @tates300monkyears4
    @tates300monkyears4 Рік тому +1

    After thinking about it, how insane is it that earth just has literal plasma bolts from the sky! Pretty sick

  • @JMHMellors
    @JMHMellors 2 роки тому +2

    I've always known it as taking the "path of least resistance" rather than the shortest. I know that this in itself is a simplified answer

  • @OriginalSteve-o
    @OriginalSteve-o 2 роки тому +2

    Lightning basically tries to find the path of least resistance as it travels down to the ground. It's not always a straight line because air is not a perfect mixture. There are fluctuations in temperature, humidity, pollutants, dust particles, etc. in the air, and so the resistance varies.

  • @miraqen7801
    @miraqen7801 2 роки тому

    lightning bolts are like royalty.
    they want a red carpet everywhere they want to strike.

  • @brianmcclenahan617
    @brianmcclenahan617 Рік тому

    Sounds like an inspiration quote "The easiest path is often times the longest one."

  • @TheSillyDragonfly
    @TheSillyDragonfly 6 місяців тому

    "Lightening, travels in the path of least resistance". Thank you for the visual ❤❤

  • @same0077
    @same0077 7 місяців тому

    Just wanted to say that you are great. Great educator with a good energy. Thank you again from Romania.

  • @JohnCooper-gm6mn
    @JohnCooper-gm6mn 2 роки тому

    Instructions unclear, I've just stuck a fork into a wall socket...

  • @kylefer
    @kylefer 2 роки тому

    I worked at a glass company making fiber optics, we weren't allowed to stick metal rods into the induction furnaces, of course because it would cause an arc and that would be the last time you ever did it, people there have died from that, so we would stick glass tubes up in there whenever we needed to instead.... seeing this video made me thankful I survived working there

  • @allisonjames2923
    @allisonjames2923 7 місяців тому

    I just watched a video that show streamers rising from objects on the ground towards the lightning that help direct the path as well. Absolutely fascinating!

  • @ihavefunnyF33T
    @ihavefunnyF33T Рік тому

    You gave me an answer I didn't know I was looking for. Well done

  • @fuzzy-02
    @fuzzy-02 2 роки тому

    Imagine how quick lightning is to figure out all the variables for the easiest to ionize path.
    Such processing powah!

  • @Marvelous404
    @Marvelous404 2 роки тому

    This guy just casually getting lightning strikes on his finger. 🤣

  • @Jx_-
    @Jx_- 2 роки тому

    Everyone else: _Making perfect shorts loops_
    ActionLab: "Gro-"

  • @ninadtaralekar
    @ninadtaralekar 2 роки тому

    What a great example and amazing way to demonstrate.. It's very helpful 👍 Thank you

  • @user-zx8sp4dc8u
    @user-zx8sp4dc8u Рік тому

    Me waiting for the cat vibing meme to be start on the Tesla coil ....💀

  • @rajneesh4497
    @rajneesh4497 Рік тому +1

    Sparks work SMART 😂😂

  • @devdecker7812
    @devdecker7812 Рік тому

    It's most likely to travel to certain molecules while moving through them, it's guaranteed to take that easiest ionization path, but the tip of the wave of function of those electrons is the path of least resistance if that makes sense .

  • @tylerdurdin8069
    @tylerdurdin8069 2 роки тому +1

    I don't recall anyone ever saying electricity takes the shortest path. The saying is that electricity takes the path of least resistance. Which is misnomer because it takes all paths actually but current will gravitate towards the path of least resistance.

  • @tanelehala6422
    @tanelehala6422 2 роки тому

    Lightning jumps down in some branched 50m (IIRC) steps called the stepped leader until a shorter similar one jumps up from the ground and they meet, creating a low resistance ionised path, usually eliminating the other branches.

  • @garydykstra4540
    @garydykstra4540 Рік тому

    I've never heard of somebody who was so determined to not say least resistance

  • @fitterniti
    @fitterniti Рік тому

    See man. I see lightning sparking my metal weapons, I switch to Ancient sword and Deku wood shield in my backpack and I'm all good - Link (BotW

  • @elgordobondiola
    @elgordobondiola Рік тому +1

    Si basically they don't take the shortest path, they take the path of least resistance, which is the fastest path... Which is the one that takes the least time to go through, the path in which it spends the least time moving...

  • @GerardoZuniga
    @GerardoZuniga Рік тому

    The path of the “least Resistance “ 😂

  • @mikeutube82
    @mikeutube82 7 днів тому

    I've always thought this is a little like rain on a windscreen. It doesn't flow down straight but the droplets zig zag moving into other static drops where its easier to flow doesn't to the water already present there.

  • @The_Dragon_Bi_dot_jpeg
    @The_Dragon_Bi_dot_jpeg 3 місяці тому

    the framerate on that camera to be catching those is incredible

  • @kenner01234
    @kenner01234 2 роки тому

    The only thing you forgot but depending on the ease of ionization the lightning spreads out in smaller bolts , in search of the easiest path to ionize

  • @GarryBoyer
    @GarryBoyer Рік тому

    Lightning often follows the tiny ionization paths created by cosmic rays. That's why they have straight portions that jump to other straight segments.

  • @Asterisk_766
    @Asterisk_766 2 роки тому

    The shape of the lightning strike in the last clip: 🗿🗿🗿

  • @sphumelelengcamu1984
    @sphumelelengcamu1984 2 роки тому +1

    We've never said it takes the shortest route but we've always maintained it takes the path with the least resistance

  • @BigJohn6060
    @BigJohn6060 Рік тому

    this sound like the notion that something is flowing in a lightning flash... but it's likely not what people think it is.

  • @Tw1steD247
    @Tw1steD247 2 роки тому

    Awesome, could you possibly do video on electricity and the human body? How skin makeup (dry, moist etc) and other factors determine how conductive the path is when shocked

  • @minhnhatb.h2503
    @minhnhatb.h2503 2 роки тому +1

    "he might be your father but he sure as hell ain't your daddy"- yondu

  • @mildymorbid
    @mildymorbid 2 роки тому

    Farther away. Further is time. Farther is distance.

  • @Question465
    @Question465 2 роки тому +1

    "It'd be extremely painful" - Bane

  • @arijeetnath9236
    @arijeetnath9236 Рік тому

    Kudos to him for getting hit by lightning bolts multiple times to entertain us

  • @nelsonvanvickle8862
    @nelsonvanvickle8862 2 роки тому

    “Lightning doesn’t take the shortest path”.. well if you’re as fast as lightning, you don’t have to 😂

  • @EtherForce
    @EtherForce Рік тому

    "Why don't you take the shorter route?"
    The Lightning: "Bitch, I'm fast enough to take the scenic route and still make it on time!"

  • @onyamarie3876
    @onyamarie3876 2 роки тому

    I did a science fair project on lightning when I was in 1st grade, I got 1st place in my grade, in my subject, and in over all 1st grade of state. I love lightning.

  • @Ole_Rasmussen
    @Ole_Rasmussen 2 роки тому

    Light also follows this concept, that's why it seems to change direction when it goes into water

  • @supercrazy50000
    @supercrazy50000 Рік тому

    the "shortest" path is always the one with least resistance

  • @zelos7413
    @zelos7413 2 роки тому

    Nature calculating the path of least resistance faster than I blunder in chess. Impressive.

  • @RentAsunder0
    @RentAsunder0 2 роки тому +1

    Path of lease resistance there is moisture and dust in the air and other stuff you are seeing it jump from these things also clean that glass I wonder if you clean it real good if u get it to go that far

  • @enderkatze6129
    @enderkatze6129 2 роки тому +1

    The path of least Resistance. Lighting is afterall, Just electricity.

  • @datguyblack
    @datguyblack 2 роки тому

    It's so fast that it doesn't mind taking a long way🤣🤣

  • @owolabiezekiel5110
    @owolabiezekiel5110 Рік тому

    Basically, lightning has a full sense of its own

  • @The-Rest-of-Us
    @The-Rest-of-Us Рік тому

    The weirdest thing about lightning is that when you film it with ultra-high slow motion, you will see that it builds up from the target to the source and not from the source to the target (you can find videos of that on UA-cam). It’s because of some quantum effect. Always boggles the mind.

    • @connor4231
      @connor4231 Рік тому

      Huh haven’t heard of that. There are multiple types of lightning though

  • @SomeRandomKydd
    @SomeRandomKydd 6 місяців тому +1

    Path of Least Resistance

  • @apontutul
    @apontutul Рік тому

    Plot twist... Actually it is him throwing lightning bolts from the finger

  • @Phosypha
    @Phosypha Рік тому

    Bro is out here like Palpatine and instead of establishing a new galactic order he's just talking about ionization

  • @tyldall
    @tyldall Рік тому

    Great video ! in a random addition to this demonstration
    If you shine an ultra violet light on the apparatus you can make the spark ark more easily a fascinating fact that discovered 18th century Electricians.
    Proving a distinct connection between light and Electricity

  • @brayanvalle3734
    @brayanvalle3734 2 роки тому

    Lightning looks like when I draw a straight line

  • @injunsun
    @injunsun 2 роки тому

    Hypothesis: Electricity always travels farther to me from table top devices, because my skin is saltier, due to being a Cystic Fibrosis carrier

  • @stephenmenyfield2110
    @stephenmenyfield2110 Місяць тому

    Least path of resistance. We learned this back when I was in elementary school

  • @samsung_fridge27
    @samsung_fridge27 Рік тому

    Basically you are even more unlucky if you get struck by lightning

  • @melazmusic
    @melazmusic Рік тому

    the surface it hits also makes a difference, large boulers attract lightning more than sand would but tall structures beats everything else.

  • @Adrian10_14
    @Adrian10_14 Рік тому

    Lightening also comes from the ground, it just moves so fast that when don’t see it happening, with the right camera you can slow down the footage and see it moves up

    • @caldeira_a
      @caldeira_a 8 місяців тому

      no it doesn't lmao

  • @Pinkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
    @Pinkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Рік тому

    he’s shooting lightning out of his finger, how powerful.

  • @sarmah7287
    @sarmah7287 2 роки тому

    Enriching knowledge in each short video. Thanks Sir.

  • @darkacb8422
    @darkacb8422 2 роки тому +1

    you could've just said "lightning takes the path of least resistance" and proceeded to explain resistance.

  • @kidd1941
    @kidd1941 Рік тому

    What a coincidence :This post came up just when rain was falling over here 😆 lol

  • @FuriousAngelRiley
    @FuriousAngelRiley 2 роки тому

    That's exactly where the phrase 'take the path of least resistance' comes from

  • @thedanielagboola
    @thedanielagboola Рік тому +1

    How much stuff does this guy know?
    Me: Yes

  • @hyperfixator
    @hyperfixator 2 роки тому

    I kind of thought my phone was lagging, but then i remember i'm using an nokia so we're all good.

  • @omegadeadpool2947
    @omegadeadpool2947 2 роки тому

    "This route is short but has more traffic. Would you like an alternate route with less Traffic?"
    Electricity: "I'll have your entire Stock"

  • @2ndUnfuniestMan101
    @2ndUnfuniestMan101 2 роки тому

    Lighting doesn't go in a straight line.
    **Laughs in Minecraft**

  • @mikat8062
    @mikat8062 Рік тому

    Holy crap so the ions in the glass can share/connect with the ones in electricity? That’s a whole new way to view things for me

  • @bloepje
    @bloepje Рік тому

    I hope that puts an end to the myth that being the highest in a field means you increase the chance of being hit.

  • @ekbrownly1205
    @ekbrownly1205 Рік тому

    On my momma this is the most I’ve ever learned about lightning 😂😂