If you play it back in 0.25x speed you can see it actually gets as light as day but lasts so short it appears to only show the silhouettes. In 0.25 speed paused at the right moments it looks like daytime with some weird ominous cloud at the top.
I was *so* hoping they'd planted a shill in the other hotel room for that joke; smart of them to rent the room for the support guys on the opposite of the building...
They actually broke into that guy’s room against his will! 😂 They had Dan beat the snot out of him so he wouldn’t go and tell on them. 😂 They ended his life after they went home too so there were no witnesses. 😅
So, basically, lightning branches out from the cloud in search for the fastest route to the ground and whichever branch reaches the ground first lights up?
Yes, although it doesn’t really “light up” per say. All the energy from the other tendrils go back up and to the main branch that touched the ground. All that energy going in one direction down the same path creates an intense amount of light.
I remember when this tech didn't exist and capturing slow mo footage of a lightning bolt was a big accomplishment because the dude basically had to sit there pointing at random spots in the sky, pressing the trigger at random intervals and hoping he caught something. This is so much easier lmao
5putput No they didn’t use it right Phenomenon a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question Emphasis on the “whose cause or explanation is in question”
How to film lightning in slow mo: 1:00 Normal lightning: 3:35 The good part: 4:56 103,000 fps strike: 8:45 thank me later OMG!!! Never ever had so many likes
Lightning is fascinating, beautiful, scary, and insane all at the same time. 2.7 megawatt-hours, 10 billion watts, all in the span of 5 milliseconds. Reaching miles from the clouds to the sky at 33% the speed of light, while superheating the air around it and causing massive shockwaves in the form of thunder. It’s absolutely mad
Just a little correction, the lightning travelling from the clouds to the ground has a speed of about 400,000 km/h. When the path is successfully made, then the lightning going from down to up by draining the side bolts move up(the return bolt) at 33% the speed of light
@@protercool8474 Rivers and leaves already branch at rates near phi. Not sure if lightning bolts do, but wouldn't be surprised if there were correlation in a still/consistent medium.
@@far2ez I'm not sure I believe that about rivers, I'd need to see a study that involved a few hundred rivers to believe there was any golden ratio stuff happening in their geometry.
@@Dramalover2299 As they were running down the hall they mentioned they had a room in the ocean side as well in case the storm was on that side, so he likely called them over
Awesome. At slo-mo you can see those lightning like reversed river systems. A couple of main rivers are feeded by an increasing number of tributary streams, sucking positive charges into the cloud, until one of them hits the path of less resistance from the ground and all charges collapse quickly through that single channel.
"And the thunder exalts [ Allah ] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault." [Quran Chapter 13 Verse 13]
Scrolling through this frame by frame, at 9:09, I think you guys caught some pretty good Ball Lightning. This happens after the main strike. You can see little balls of lightning floating off to the right. There are a couple that stay for some time and vary their intensity! Maybe the first ever Ball Lightning caught on film!!
I’m sure someone has said this before after three years but, at 6:30/6:31 right when the flash happens they actually managed to capture what looks like the tail of a red sprite on the right side of the strike. Which is really cool
I came to the comments exactly for the same reason! Also, if you watch closely the frames where the other lightning happens you can see them in almost every frame (e.g. look at the frame they stopped at 7:17, you can clearly see that on the right) but as someone said in comments, that doesn’t look like a reflection to me… so curious of what this phenomenon is
I’ve noticed that lightning branches out like a tree, and that the first “branch” to make contact with something is the one that sticks. While every other branch gets completely erased and adds it’s power to the main one. And if two manage to make contact at the exact same time, is splits the energy between the two.
So basically the first branch to make contact is the path of least resistance and all the electrons are redirected and flow through that path which forms the larger, brighter main bolt
The negative charge in the cloud is looking for a place to ground, that's why all the branches are reaching down. There are positively charged arms that reach up from the ground and the first of those that it makes contact with completes the circuit and the cloud dumps its charge into ground in a series of bright pulses down that main path.
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you guys should contact a youtuber called Pecos Hank, he is a professional storm chaser and i bet a tornadoes vortices look phenomenal in slow mo (hint hint)
well, idk. tornadoes can be beautiful but i dont think slowing them down would do much in terms of making it easier to appreciate. in fact, speeding it up usually makes it better because all of it's changes take some time to occur.
They're gonna analyze it? I really hope they reach out to actual lightning physicists that do this for a living, or else I can guarantee they're gonna get it wrong. As an amateur lightning researcher, literally no one who doesn't research lightning as a hobby or profession understands even fundamental aspects of it.
The Lightning Hunter it's amazing when all is said and done how little we really do know about the world around us lightening certainly seems to be among our ignorance. I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson that mentioned that science only knows of 4% of all scientific knowledge to be learnt how he comes to that figure I do not know but still that's mind boggling in itself.
@@rabbitphobia We did learn quite a bit about lightning in the past two decades. It's just that media outlets refuse to reflect newer findings and instead teach things we thought were true in 1980.
I have always loved lightning and have found it incredibly beautiful but you guys really took that all to a NEW LEVEL! Thank You for this! Edit** 1,600 likes😳 I am so glad I’m not the only one who loves this stuff🙃🌬⛈🌪
Shows how the negative charge accumulated in the clouds sends out "feelers" searching for ground. When the first feeler makes conductive contact, the remaining charge imbalance follows its path until the charge imbalance is nuetralized.
@@theTylerMorale partially correct, the force is not entirely strong enough to fully retract the feelers, they dry up so fast. I'm assuming some charge get lost in the air.
@@zanly5039 they dry up. Not everything is going to get sucked back up the feelers, that would require to much energy since they are already so close to the target, they get lost in the air.
It is said that the step leader of a lightning bolt travels at a speed of 224,000 MPH (the bolts that travel down from the cloud), while the return stroke (stroke that travels up) travels 1000 times that (220,000,000 MPH, or a 1/3 the speed of light). Insanely fast.
Pause the video at one of the lightning strikes and then use period and comma keys to scroll through the frames. You'll see that the leader gets close to the ground but doesn't quite reach it, and then all of a sudden there's the insanely bright flash. That's the moment where the positively charged upwards lightning (which you can't see) connects with the negatively charged downwards lightning and this, and only this, is the actual lightning strike. Everything you see after the flash is just the glow of the superheated air but the actual electrical discharge is already finished. BTW, is it weird to watch a slow mo guys video in slow motion?
You could actually dodge it, that would be so cool. I bet it would be an extreme sport where people go out in faraday cage suits in storms and try to dodge.
8:14 Gavin and Dan chatting: Thor: *thundering* 🌩️🌩️ “FILM ME, MORTALS! FILM ME MORE!” 🌩️🌩️ Dan: “We should start filming again.” Thor: *THUNDERING LOUDER* 🌩️🌩️ _“PRECISELY! GET ON WITH IT!” 🌩️🌩️_
Amazing to see at this scale how the 'tendrils' seek the path of least resistance, and once the best one starts to reach its connection, robs the others of their energy
It's less a path of least resistance, and more just random searching. A though experiment I've heard of is comparing the tendril to a 60 metre diameter sphere. The tendril moves in radii in random directions, and essentially whichever branch or feeler makes contact first is the one where all the energy is transferred. It's like having a group of ants trying to get from one side of ravine to another (and the ants are blind). smaller groups split off from the main group into ever smaller branches, and whichever group finds the other side first somehow sends a signal and the other groups follow the scent trail exactly to get to the other side of the ravine, regardless of whether or not it's the shortest route.
And the weirdest is that they don't disappear. The charges in these paths are sucked to the main path so fast that they break the sound barrier and turn the main path even more brighter
My guess is that is lens flare much the same as when you see a cars headlights in a movie somewhere on the other side of the frame is an image of the headlights, caused by internal reflection in the lens elements.
There's quite a lot of footage already available, atomic testing was one of the primary drivers of early slow-motion camera technology. Look up Operation Hardtack you'll find a bunch of different shots of that detonation.
I spent the begining of the video thinking to myself "No, surly not. They wouldn't do that, would they?" I half expected Dan to pull out a Fariday suit the whole video.
That night shot of the parks with the ships in the background, simply stunning...then the fun starts, wow, you guys simply rock! Thanks for the visuals.
"And the thunder exalts [ Allah ] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault." [Quran Chapter 13 Verse 13]
Something cool I noticed, when they show the "feelers" at 103,000 fps, even after the "feelers" have gone away, you still see little Sparks of lighting through the sky in the immediate area. That is wicked
It's like a metaphore for life itself, the many different routes and possible outcomes but only one is the true one and the one you end up living and manifesting. Always so awesome to see nature in slow mo action
If lightning amazes you, check out blue jets and red elves. There is still so much we don’t know about lightning strikes and exactly what causes different types.
They'll need some better equipment then, like special light sensitive optics etc in order to pickup the redsprites/jets, it's also going to be extremely difficult because they are so faint and in order to capture a blue jet in slow motion you'll need to some how get the perfect angle where their high speed cameras can ignore the torrent of powerful lightning below the cloud in order to observe the blue jets above the cloud.
@@treyrulz23 The naming scheme was determined by the difficulty in initially discovering these phenomena. Their actual name is an overall branching classification known as "TLE's" aka Transient Luminescent Events. These types of lightning discharges just occur very quickly and don't produce much light. It is due to the high altitude they take place in where the thinness of the air causes their plasma to take a different form that is not an arc but rather a glow discharge. Similar to plasma globes.
I've actually filmed a lightning storm before, but not to get a slow mo shot. You can get amazing pictures of lightning if you film it then go through the video frame by frame and screenshot it. Makes great screen savers. I've never gotten anything this impressive though.
Well that is why the legend of thor came to be in the first place. Norse people looking at lightning and thinking something so devastatingly powerful couldn't be naturally occuring.
I've always heard that a lighting strike has feelers before the actual bolt. It was very cool to actually see them here. I used to take photos of lightning on my Canon DSLR. I would set it on bulb setting and use my remote trigger. Set the aperture to F/22 and ISO down to 100 and I could leave the shutter open for quite some time. Could capture numerous lightning strikes on 1 shot. But this slo-mo stuff is great. Cheers to you guys. Looks fun
Dan & Gav, I was struck by lightning Sept. 1979 while going to college at USF Tampa. I was riding my bike, rain storm approached us, lightning came down, struck only myself (not girl riding bike beside me). It bifurcated in front of my face & struck both my hands on the handlebars, popped my bicycle into the air & I crash landed. Both my hands/fingertips were smoking! Raced to hospital, lucky to be alive. They said the rubber in my bike tires saved my life (rubber grounded my lightning strike). Ultimately, all my fingernails fell off & grew back weeks later.
Hi NameAbetterCollabthan X AND SKI .....Yes, biggest long term problem is remembering how painful it was, fingernails falling off. Back then, people were so superstitious & acted like "God must not like her, she got struck by lightning." I heard lots of "whispers" about me in the hallways of the college dorm. Also, I avoid being outside, if I hear lightning in the distance. In 1979 I was struck BEFORE the rain even started. The clouds were rolling overheard & you could hear the thunder & than BAM, it got me!
Hello Dream Light Ball, yes...my hands were shaking, my whole body shook! Had I not been on my bicycle when the lightning struck me I would be dead, I know that. Also very hard to hear: when the lightning struck me, is was a VERY noisy/loud BAM!
I'm pretty sure there are cameras that can take light speed in slow motion but the thing is that it'll be much better if it was the size of a phantom for example.
@@awiseseal7559 no, there aren't. What you're talking about is the MIT project that using information from various sensors, a pulsing light source, a still scene, and a camera were able to generate footage at a trillion frames per second. Note that the generation process takes all the hundreds of frames taken and stitches them using the data taken by the sensors. The camera itself is unable to do this, and I honestly really doubt it'll ever be possible to do it in real time and in any random scene. That's because the data will have to inevitably come out the photosensor (a single pixel) somehow, travel some distance which is limited by, unironically, light speed, and then be processed and stored by electronics that are also limited by light speed. That means that every single centimeter that you add to the recording pipeline is a centimeter that the light will travel per frame. So if your entire pipeline was one centimeter long, you'd be able to see light travel though a standard 30 cm ruler in a second at 30 fps.
@@davidflores909 What are you talking about? The camera which would be able to do this could have just multiple sensors. Your info about length of a pipeline also does not make much sense. The fact, that the data are traveling through something (lets say a wire/optical cable.. just for some clear discussion) does not mean, you cant send another data right after it. So you could just capture the light travel in your examle at 200 FPS - if your sensor is able to do so - and then wait till the data are processed. Was majority of modern cameras are not limited by speed of a sensor - but limited by speed and capacity of ram - for this very reason - they cant process the data fast enough to save them - so they just save the raw image data in the ram, till its full and process it afterwards.
@@davidflores909 , surely they could use the mirror method ( /watch?v=vluzeaVvpU0 ) , but have the mirror track the light using computer software, should be good enough for lightning at a medium distance.
Wow, that was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love stormy weather (only if i'm safe inside or on a balcony^^) and i love thunder and lightning, it is unbelievable every time i watch a storm, how massive the power of nature is. I have so much respect, if i watch a storm! Your record of these lightnings is incredible, i have to stop and play it again, because i can't believe how awesome it looks in slow motion. Thank you for sharing this experience, it was a pleasure to watch this!!!!!
You don't need 28,000fps to film a fish flying through the air or a giant water spike... They film at the framerates required, do you really want to watch a fish take hours to slap Dan in the face?
Really?!! that's the name of the song? because i got stuck on top of a mountain called "Moxie Bald" in a gigantic lightning storm one time. probably doesn't mean much to you guys, but to me, since it was one of the biggest lightning storms i had ever seen, was quite memorable. 😃
That was phenomenal, quite literally. Even slowed right down, it still seems to move fast. I noticed that the lightning itself, when the feelers spread out like branches, seem to be multicoloured. As soon as it finds the leader, it lights up white. My husband thought it resembled a load of tadpoles coming down leaving a trail behind them until they made contact, then Bam!!. You should colab with Pecos Hank. That would be absolutely amazing since he finds some amazing storms
The lightning illuminating the bay just enough to see the silhouettes of the ships is a super ominous image.
Miles rise of skywalker
@@alanpimentel1407 facts I was getting those vibes
alan pimentel oppp best me too it 🤦♂️
If you play it back in 0.25x speed you can see it actually gets as light as day but lasts so short it appears to only show the silhouettes. In 0.25 speed paused at the right moments it looks like daytime with some weird ominous cloud at the top.
@@alanpimentel1407 eewww...
One of my favorite videos you guys have done. So amazing to see the feelers reaching out for the lucky path!
Love your channel Bro
U give the best explanation and experiments which helps a lot!!! Keep it up!!!
Omg , i subscribed ur channel 8 mnths ago ... And did not expect you here !!
Huge FAN of your channel all three of you are doing a fantastic job. HAIL the ACTION LAB and the SLO-MO guys 5:03
Yuhuuu
Maybe you could do a video about this, if you haven't already ofcourse. Would love to see this.
4:05 “Why are you guys in my room?”
“IT’S SCIENCE, NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!”
I was *so* hoping they'd planted a shill in the other hotel room for that joke; smart of them to rent the room for the support guys on the opposite of the building...
The guy: Don't mind me... I'm just here, I guess. Not expecting to be UA-cam celebraties or something!
They actually broke into that guy’s room against his will! 😂 They had Dan beat the snot out of him so he wouldn’t go and tell on them. 😂 They ended his life after they went home too so there were no witnesses. 😅
@@hamsandwich1333That's dark...
They probably just picked the lock.
So, basically, lightning branches out from the cloud in search for the fastest route to the ground and whichever branch reaches the ground first lights up?
Yes, although it doesn’t really “light up” per say. All the energy from the other tendrils go back up and to the main branch that touched the ground. All that energy going in one direction down the same path creates an intense amount of light.
Star Wars 4 life Nerd (no offense )
animetor Zion be careful what you say to nerds. They may be your boss one day
Yes true
Pretty much, in technical terms, it's such a high voltage that air is able to conduct and it takes the path of least resistance.
"Working real hard."
*Sets up autonomous recording in hotel*
Well, they end up lugging the thing to the other end so at least they worked a little?
XD
I remember when this tech didn't exist and capturing slow mo footage of a lightning bolt was a big accomplishment because the dude basically had to sit there pointing at random spots in the sky, pressing the trigger at random intervals and hoping he caught something.
This is so much easier lmao
@@fabianlaibin6956 That is true. They did have to hustle there, and I'm sure that camera isn't light!
500th Like. Your welcome
Do you ev3n know how to set it up
In my opinion, lightning is one of the coolest natural phenomenons that exist
@@theesupremeeli8482 fair enough. Event then
Lightning has always been the coolest thing of all time for me even as a wee baby
I agree
nothing can be better than massive surges of electricity coming from the sky.
5putput
No they didn’t use it right
Phenomenon
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question
Emphasis on the “whose cause or explanation is in question”
City with the most lightening strikes - "Lets put a pool on the roof of a skyscraper"
I know right
@Orion V bro chill
nah it's pretty safe
@Orion V issa joke
Engineers aren't as stupid as you think
How to film lightning in slow mo: 1:00
Normal lightning: 3:35
The good part: 4:56
103,000 fps strike: 8:45
thank me later
OMG!!! Never ever had so many likes
Indianimates thanks
@@Kryptix HAHA
this comment should be pinned
Indianimates ty
Thanks
UA-cam: How fast is lightning?
Nature: Yes.
UA-cam: nice stuff.
Lightning goes with 360.000 km/h but the light it produces goes 300.000 km/s or 1.080.000.000 km/h. No problem
TimDaOne or you can just say speed of light :)
@@dr.chopper3804 true but that's not what they were really talking about
TimDaOne I know dat
Lightning is fascinating, beautiful, scary, and insane all at the same time. 2.7 megawatt-hours, 10 billion watts, all in the span of 5 milliseconds. Reaching miles from the clouds to the sky at 33% the speed of light, while superheating the air around it and causing massive shockwaves in the form of thunder. It’s absolutely mad
imo it's amazing!!
You are a poet, my friend!
And creates Nitrogen.
Just a little correction, the lightning travelling from the clouds to the ground has a speed of about 400,000 km/h. When the path is successfully made, then the lightning going from down to up by draining the side bolts move up(the return bolt) at 33% the speed of light
Lightning and thunder are one of those things that made people believe a bearded old man in the sky created us 10,000 years ago ha
The amazing resemblance in lightning patterns, leaf patterns, vein patterns, etc is just insane.
It has resemblance in that it's a branching path, but it's far more chaotic and assymetrical. More like a river or some kind of bacterial growth
Look up Slime Molds. It's very common in nature
@@protercool8474 Rivers and leaves already branch at rates near phi. Not sure if lightning bolts do, but wouldn't be surprised if there were correlation in a still/consistent medium.
@@far2ez I'm not sure I believe that about rivers, I'd need to see a study that involved a few hundred rivers to believe there was any golden ratio stuff happening in their geometry.
4:06 "who are you and what are you doing in my room?!"
Didn't even see him until this comment hahaahhaha
Yeah, I was thinking at that time, "Did they just barge into someone else's room? And they didn't even greet him!"
Hu
@@Dramalover2299 As they were running down the hall they mentioned they had a room in the ocean side as well in case the storm was on that side, so he likely called them over
4:34 -----> 4:40 Another angel. There are more then 1 guy. They are 5 people total in the hotel-room
The craziest part is that in the highest fps one, you can actually see all the split paths visually dissipate after the main bolt makes contact.
That's them super fast step leaders for you.
@@erikflynn3376 Nah the stepped leader is the slow part where they're going towards the ground, the return stroke is the *fast* part
@@erikflynn3376 thats way faster than a Bugatti Chriron!
You guys have gone from back garden antics to being at the cutting edge of photographing the natural world.
Agree
@EXCELLENT TUBE Not nice.
EXCELLENT TUBE tf
Raghu @jamaa
Awesome. At slo-mo you can see those lightning like reversed river systems. A couple of main rivers are feeded by an increasing number of tributary streams, sucking positive charges into the cloud, until one of them hits the path of less resistance from the ground and all charges collapse quickly through that single channel.
9:15
"Let's go inside"
*Goes outside*
😂
😂 bruh
They actually said outside but the captions said inside instead
@@TOCTAAM no they said inside
Bruhh
Dan: 9:24
Singapore: Am I a joke to you?
LOL
Nice picture of Master Chief's helmet
noah guard21 thanks
Lol
Martin Mooz lmaooooooooooo
Incredible, this is some of if not the best slow motion footage of lightning I’ve ever seen
Definitely my personal favorite by a long shot!
"And the thunder exalts [ Allah ] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault." [Quran Chapter 13 Verse 13]
There's been footage captured at 1 billion or 1 trillion frames per second, can't remember which, but you can actually see photons of light moving
@@BurntheedgeGaming
That's called femto-photography and it is a totally different league of slow motion picture recording
This looks like a war movie. The lightning revealing the enemy fleet😂
I love how they traveled all the way to Singapore just to see some lightning lmao that's some dedication right there.
They could've went anywhere in Florida
or the midwest
@@Myron90 Florida is a shithole though.
"some lightning"
they went to Singapore to get some sucky sucky time. Don't be fooled.
The red line is an internal lens reflection. Cause everyone keeps asking, "did you see...". Please like so that peeps can see this.
I came down here looking for this comment! :-) Thanks!
There's also a lot of chromatic aberration on the lightning strikes themselves.
I comment so they see
Thank you!
Good thing I read the comments before I watched what happened. I don't want to be one of those people.
Running with that camera through the hallway got me stressed
Same and it messed with me when they ran into the other room. For a sec I thought they ran into a someone else’s room
Yeah, Gav was running with the camera like it cost only a few pennies.
What's the price?
@@RedWine_noob I wanna know too.
How much a 2k FPS recording camera cost?
@@ButiNgaSau I don't know if they upgraded and that's not a Phantom or its a new version, but over 100,000 dollars
-That's a thumbnail
-Yeah, that's a thumbnail
*it's not a thumbnail*
Lmao good one
@@arvy7765 oh yeah yeah
I Was looking for this comment
actually i would cop that to be my pc background
Why do you have my profile picture?
Scrolling through this frame by frame, at 9:09, I think you guys caught some pretty good Ball Lightning. This happens after the main strike. You can see little balls of lightning floating off to the right. There are a couple that stay for some time and vary their intensity! Maybe the first ever Ball Lightning caught on film!!
Oh! So they are leftovers from the feelers...! Good catch!
Gavin running with a US$150k camera D;
Don't run with scissors.
Don't run with expensive cameras.
xD
Me the whole time: Please don't trip, please don't trip, please don't trip, I might die if you hurt that camera xD
is that camera really 150k?
Quinn Von Kerman yes, around that price.
@@hungryfilms3707 holy balls!
if the camera is that expensive, i wonder how much is worth the camera that shot a nuclear detonation like it was nothing
There's something about lightning that's just beautiful.
yes i know, it's fascinating, electricity itself is so fascinating.
It's satisfying
@@mii_cian6242 let one of them hit you or hit you nearby and keep that same energy.
@@Jbeats37 Yup lemme just control lightning right quick
@@lulu9001 electricity is fear
These lightning beams just look like my straight lines that I would always try to draw in school
Mine too...😂😂😂
You must’ve been really good at drawing lightning bolts then!
@@Probly_a_sweet_potato yes...OFC..😂😂
Vratical new!!!
I saw vratical's lines hit a tree once
I’m sure someone has said this before after three years but, at 6:30/6:31 right when the flash happens they actually managed to capture what looks like the tail of a red sprite on the right side of the strike. Which is really cool
Playing at .25 speed I saw the red trail during the blast! WOW. Then all the tendrils 🤖 "our mission is complete. Run away, run away!"
its the reflection in the lense
i can see it in the video but what actually is a red sprite?
I came to the comments exactly for the same reason! Also, if you watch closely the frames where the other lightning happens you can see them in almost every frame (e.g. look at the frame they stopped at 7:17, you can clearly see that on the right) but as someone said in comments, that doesn’t look like a reflection to me… so curious of what this phenomenon is
@@DjAndrewWhite Its called "the-common-reflection-in-the-lense-phenomenon"
I’ve noticed that lightning branches out like a tree, and that the first “branch” to make contact with something is the one that sticks. While every other branch gets completely erased and adds it’s power to the main one. And if two manage to make contact at the exact same time, is splits the energy between the two.
path of least resistance
Nice
So basically the first branch to make contact is the path of least resistance and all the electrons are redirected and flow through that path which forms the larger, brighter main bolt
That's called path of least resistance
The negative charge in the cloud is looking for a place to ground, that's why all the branches are reaching down. There are positively charged arms that reach up from the ground and the first of those that it makes contact with completes the circuit and the cloud dumps its charge into ground in a series of bright pulses down that main path.
7:02 "They're not even getting hit really."
*Lightning proceeds to strike directly on a ship*
>thunder
u mean lightning
lol g
dont think it actually hit it, just from where they were it looked like it did, even though it could of hit the water far behind it.
Lightning: hold my beer
nothing to see here, just Thor playing with his hammer
Sorry, today's Wednesday. Thor only does that on Thursday.
@@ROGER2095 This just in Zeus Showing off.....
But Thor has no hammer anymore...
FYI Thor's hammer is destroyed!!
@@SuperTux20 He's not playing with that "hammer"
one of the greatest footage you've ever filmed mates, love lightnings, thanx really
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No pretty girls
Just awesomeness
Also:
No shameless begging for Patreon donations, no advert for legalized gambling (Shadow Legends) or VPN providers, and no "smash that like button" at the end.
How is this possible?? Am I on the wrong website... this is youtube, right?? :)
Runi there no problem if he beg for patreon donation. i donate 3$/month to my fav youtuber and i got special footage and free merch. its worth it.
yeah pretty girls are gross.
also i agree with you though
Mate, Gavin and Dan are the pretty girls...
Have you seen the room rates for the Marina Bay Sands hotel? This video was a pretty hard flex!
you guys should contact a youtuber called Pecos Hank, he is a professional storm chaser and i bet a tornadoes vortices look phenomenal in slow mo (hint hint)
I love precos hank he’s so calm and he is a life saver definitely a great or the best person in youtube
Oh yeahh
well, idk. tornadoes can be beautiful but i dont think slowing them down would do much in terms of making it easier to appreciate. in fact, speeding it up usually makes it better because all of it's changes take some time to occur.
Well they should start somewhere that a tornado has already formed, its sometimes mesmerizing to see those circulations in slow mo
Agree, Pecos Hank is the Best and Most popular Tornographer !
3:43 imagine being in the hotel and seeing two guys running down the hall with lab coats
and an extremely sophisticated camera
I was just imagining that would have been the perfect set up to a sci fi movie too.
And imagine listening to one of them say “my shorts are falling off” 😂
I’d follow them
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That lightning sequence at 28,000 frames/ sec was AMAZING
Fascinating! So far, this is the episode I've been most excited to see the 'Part 2' analysis of.
They're gonna analyze it? I really hope they reach out to actual lightning physicists that do this for a living, or else I can guarantee they're gonna get it wrong. As an amateur lightning researcher, literally no one who doesn't research lightning as a hobby or profession understands even fundamental aspects of it.
The Lightning Hunter it's amazing when all is said and done how little we really do know about the world around us lightening certainly seems to be among our ignorance.
I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson that mentioned that science only knows of 4% of all scientific knowledge to be learnt how he comes to that figure I do not know but still that's mind boggling in itself.
@@rabbitphobia We did learn quite a bit about lightning in the past two decades. It's just that media outlets refuse to reflect newer findings and instead teach things we thought were true in 1980.
The part while "Night On Bald Mountain" is playing gave me chills.
To be honest I was having some flashbacks to the Chernobog fight in Kingdom Hearts 1.
@Hyle Heatlerr I don't think you know what a weeb is
I have always loved lightning and have found it incredibly beautiful but you guys really took that all to a NEW LEVEL! Thank You for this!
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1,600 likes😳 I am so glad I’m not the only one who loves this stuff🙃🌬⛈🌪
5:50 What are those ships?
Ahmed why are you asking him?
Ship: a vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods by sea.
I want a video with all the slow motion lighting, no subtitles or words just the lightning and thunder
cormole thx and ryan it was by accident meant to write it int he comment section, my bad
Shows how the negative charge accumulated in the clouds sends out "feelers" searching for ground. When the first feeler makes conductive contact, the remaining charge imbalance follows its path until the charge imbalance is nuetralized.
what happens to the other feelers that don't make contact?
@@zanly5039 they retract and send their charge down the path of least resistance, the main bolt of lightning
@@theTylerMorale partially correct, the force is not entirely strong enough to fully retract the feelers, they dry up so fast. I'm assuming some charge get lost in the air.
@@zanly5039 they dry up. Not everything is going to get sucked back up the feelers, that would require to much energy since they are already so close to the target, they get lost in the air.
It is said that the step leader of a lightning bolt travels at a speed of 224,000 MPH (the bolts that travel down from the cloud), while the return stroke (stroke that travels up) travels 1000 times that (220,000,000 MPH, or a 1/3 the speed of light). Insanely fast.
Yeh look at that when it goes up 🍻.
Beautiful from far but terrifying up close
If only we could harness that power, it is a gigantuan outburst, I dare not speculate the wattage put out...
Pause the video at one of the lightning strikes and then use period and comma keys to scroll through the frames. You'll see that the leader gets close to the ground but doesn't quite reach it, and then all of a sudden there's the insanely bright flash. That's the moment where the positively charged upwards lightning (which you can't see) connects with the negatively charged downwards lightning and this, and only this, is the actual lightning strike. Everything you see after the flash is just the glow of the superheated air but the actual electrical discharge is already finished.
BTW, is it weird to watch a slow mo guys video in slow motion?
@@JC130676 wow! thanks for the "period and comma keys" lifehack! I didn't know that before.
Can you imagine if lightning was actually this slow...?
Mr. Tattoo ASMR..... I’m Scared Now xD...
Just imagine the lightning coming down at you at that speed I would burst out laughing
I would then proudly say that I am lightning fast.
My dad could be alive today
You could actually dodge it, that would be so cool. I bet it would be an extreme sport where people go out in faraday cage suits in storms and try to dodge.
Looking for time stamp... 4:55 didn't find one so here you go
Young Yava tysm
Thanks dude
Thx a lot
Thx
Thanks
8:14
Gavin and Dan chatting:
Thor: *thundering* 🌩️🌩️ “FILM ME, MORTALS! FILM ME MORE!” 🌩️🌩️
Dan: “We should start filming again.”
Thor: *THUNDERING LOUDER* 🌩️🌩️ _“PRECISELY! GET ON WITH IT!” 🌩️🌩️_
These guys must have one of the most enjoyable jobs in the world.
Yes! And they act like they enjoy it too
@Leo Cockalorum wtf they can make a lot of money from just UA-cam considering how much subscribers/views they have
They are probably the only people hoping for a storm on vacation
@Lee O’kelly Is that right? What do they do?
@Lee O’kelly Thanks. I'd forgotten Rooster Teeth existed.
Who ever decided to start playing 'Night on Bald Mountain' at 4:55 is a genius. always sends a shiver through me.
Thank you for sharing the name the piece!
My marching band is playing it as the opener this year
Thanks for saving me from looking that up! I knew it was the first half of the piece in Fantasia but couldn't remember the name.
Amazing to see at this scale how the 'tendrils' seek the path of least resistance, and once the best one starts to reach its connection, robs the others of their energy
It's less a path of least resistance, and more just random searching. A though experiment I've heard of is comparing the tendril to a 60 metre diameter sphere. The tendril moves in radii in random directions, and essentially whichever branch or feeler makes contact first is the one where all the energy is transferred. It's like having a group of ants trying to get from one side of ravine to another (and the ants are blind). smaller groups split off from the main group into ever smaller branches, and whichever group finds the other side first somehow sends a signal and the other groups follow the scent trail exactly to get to the other side of the ravine, regardless of whether or not it's the shortest route.
These are one of the best shots of what the Universe is doing all the time. Trying to be in balance no matter the means. Great shots!
I had no idea it branched out like that before striking the ground
But you are bill nye, you should know that.
Your pfp fits with your comment
Yeah, and once the most efficient path reaches the point of impact first, the other paths instantly disappear. Fascinating!
And the weirdest is that they don't disappear. The charges in these paths are sucked to the main path so fast that they break the sound barrier and turn the main path even more brighter
Lol no they don't get sucked in. There is so much wrong with that sentence...
I dont know why UA-cam recommended me this but that lightning looks sick! 🤷🏻♀️
Same with me
Same
I don't know why you guys still not subscribed then?😜👍
Then live in the apsrent I am in 23 level apartment there’s loads of lightning to scare you!
me too!
The way the lightning searches its path is mesmerizing... Nature in all its Mightiness !
It's indeed beautiful
I love the ambiance of the ships floating in the dark with the lightning lighting them up
0:18 the way Dan said "in the world" was very Jeremy Clarkson
Yes lol
play it at 2x speed
sounds like he says “you wanna go hide rain
I was gonna say that was a clean reference to the orangutan hahaha
that man's a legend :D
6:40 who else saw the red lightning?
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SO COOL I LOVE THE BACKGROUND MUSIC
My guess is that is lens flare much the same as when you see a cars headlights in a movie somewhere on the other side of the frame is an image of the headlights, caused by internal reflection in the lens elements.
Or it could be speedForce😳
It's the flash barry Allen is real
Dude with good pc: hey look im running 100 fps
slo mo guys:hold my beer
@@balajibabu7224 watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/KeVi4XSvMQI/v-deo.html
This joke is horrible
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Video is capped at 24 fps Unfortunately :(
The “….in the worrrld” sentence at the beginning had to be Jeremy Clarkson reference, right? 😂amazing video btw. I’ve just rewatched it
Dan Holding A Metal Rod in a Lightning Storm at 112,000 FPS!!!!
GONE VIOLENT (I ALMOST DIED)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SNM PRODUCTIONS Wtf what do you mean almost died he would have died
IlikeDoge , r/woooosh
IlikeDoge , fking idiot 🤦🏻♂️ r/woooosshhh
Up next, Atomic bomb explosion in slow motion. XD
I don't see anything wrong with that, all you have to do is find a big fridge and put everyone inside 😀
That would be awesome
There's quite a lot of footage already available, atomic testing was one of the primary drivers of early slow-motion camera technology.
Look up Operation Hardtack you'll find a bunch of different shots of that detonation.
Sponsored by Donald trump
Hopefully dude!
1am in dark room
Brain : hey i need to rest
me : ... *watching slow mo lightning*
Eyes : stop torturing meee
But. But. But. It’s 4 Am on a school night
wtf this is exactly me i need to get up early lmaoo
Same but at 4am
Same but 2 am
same
This made me cry..It's so beautiful ❤️! Thank You for filming this!
I half thought dan was going to strap a metal rod to himself and run around in a storm😂
I wouldn't put it past them to do that
I spent the begining of the video thinking to myself "No, surly not. They wouldn't do that, would they?" I half expected Dan to pull out a Fariday suit the whole video.
_Game Theory: lightning bolts are just trees made of energy???!?!?!!!_
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It was a perfect time for an entry of a GODZILLA from the ocean wrecking all those ships....
Bilkul sahi bola
@@mayankgupta3777 Haan bhai Mai hamesha sahi bolta hun
That night shot of the parks with the ships in the background, simply stunning...then the fun starts, wow, you guys simply rock! Thanks for the visuals.
Yes! This is what I've wanted to see for so long!
"And the thunder exalts [ Allah ] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault." [Quran Chapter 13 Verse 13]
@@bassamdayem calm down bro
They did slow mo on a lighting strike
*_how shocking_*
Boo get off the stage
you mean bolt off the stage!
thank you. *NEXT!*
lol thnx
Good one
Something cool I noticed, when they show the "feelers" at 103,000 fps, even after the "feelers" have gone away, you still see little Sparks of lighting through the sky in the immediate area. That is wicked
Good catch
I was just going to add this to the comments when i came accross yours!!!
9:03 onwards, it looks surreal!!
It's like a metaphore for life itself, the many different routes and possible outcomes but only one is the true one and the one you end up living and manifesting. Always so awesome to see nature in slow mo action
Well said friend
If lightning amazes you, check out blue jets and red elves. There is still so much we don’t know about lightning strikes and exactly what causes different types.
Ryugo7 7 aren’t there green ones as well that occur in the upper atmosphere?
Grimace427 yeah I think so.
They'll need some better equipment then, like special light sensitive optics etc in order to pickup the redsprites/jets, it's also going to be extremely difficult because they are so faint and in order to capture a blue jet in slow motion you'll need to some how get the perfect angle where their high speed cameras can ignore the torrent of powerful lightning below the cloud in order to observe the blue jets above the cloud.
Dang who names these things types of strikes
@@treyrulz23 The naming scheme was determined by the difficulty in initially discovering these phenomena. Their actual name is an overall branching classification known as "TLE's" aka Transient Luminescent Events.
These types of lightning discharges just occur very quickly and don't produce much light. It is due to the high altitude they take place in where the thinness of the air causes their plasma to take a different form that is not an arc but rather a glow discharge. Similar to plasma globes.
7:15 -That's a thumbnail
7:16 -Yeah, that's a thumbnail
It's not a thumbnail ;_;
Truth!
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*That was awesome* ✅🙂
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Ahh~
meh....considering what they COULD have captured but failed too.....
Why are u everywhere?
It's like nerves are shooting up..... absolutely amazing to watch it! Thank you for this amazing content✨
I've actually filmed a lightning storm before, but not to get a slow mo shot. You can get amazing pictures of lightning if you film it then go through the video frame by frame and screenshot it. Makes great screen savers. I've never gotten anything this impressive though.
fireworks displays have nothing on a show from Mama Nature.. just awesome.
Ehh.....
Thor was very busy that day
5:08 it's like entry of Thor from Asgard . 🤩🤩
Yeah...THOR...⚡⚡
Well that is why the legend of thor came to be in the first place. Norse people looking at lightning and thinking something so devastatingly powerful couldn't be naturally occuring.
That’s why Thor is getting powerful. He can control all of that
😻 *I МАS"ТURВАТЕ Т0 V!IDЕ0S 0N МY СHАN!NЕL! L0!0K!* 👙👙
I love every single one of your videos, but this is the only one that gives me goosebumps. Lightning is absolutely ridiculous.
I've always heard that a lighting strike has feelers before the actual bolt. It was very cool to actually see them here. I used to take photos of lightning on my Canon DSLR. I would set it on bulb setting and use my remote trigger. Set the aperture to F/22 and ISO down to 100 and I could leave the shutter open for quite some time. Could capture numerous lightning strikes on 1 shot. But this slo-mo stuff is great. Cheers to you guys. Looks fun
6:42 sooo no one gonna talk about that Red Lightning🤔
That one probably struck Barry Allen 😂
yo I don't think they even know how rare that is
It looks like a reflection; it's the same shape as the main bolt.
It was probably the bolt messing with the camera because you can see that its the exact same shape
It's just a flare, guys
Dan & Gav, I was struck by lightning Sept. 1979 while going to college at USF Tampa. I was riding my bike, rain storm approached us, lightning came down, struck only myself (not girl riding bike beside me). It bifurcated in front of my face & struck both my hands on the handlebars, popped my bicycle into the air & I crash landed. Both my hands/fingertips were smoking! Raced to hospital, lucky to be alive. They said the rubber in my bike tires saved my life (rubber grounded my lightning strike). Ultimately, all my fingernails fell off & grew back weeks later.
You should try to lift mjolnir now.
Hi NameAbetterCollabthan X AND SKI .....Yes, biggest long term problem is remembering how painful it was, fingernails falling off. Back then, people were so superstitious & acted like "God must not like her, she got struck by lightning." I heard lots of "whispers" about me in the hallways of the college dorm. Also, I avoid being outside, if I hear lightning in the distance. In 1979 I was struck BEFORE the rain even started. The clouds were rolling overheard & you could hear the thunder & than BAM, it got me!
So sorry to hear your painful experience. But, did your hand shaking so fast afterward?
Hello Dream Light Ball, yes...my hands were shaking, my whole body shook! Had I not been on my bicycle when the lightning struck me I would be dead, I know that. Also very hard to hear: when the lightning struck me, is was a VERY noisy/loud BAM!
Incredible. Hope you’re doing alright now even though it happened so long ago
I really enjoy the older episodes, they were more about the experience of capturing what was recorded. More of this please.
Music during the lightning storm is “Night on Bald Mountain” by Mussorgsky for those interested.
Allumen thx i had a feeling it was by him
THANK YOU
I never realized how alive lightning looked, it honestly looks like some sort of organism through a microscope.
All nice and calm just watching the storm * gav just squints as the camera screen and sees a silhouette in the flashes* GODZILLA!!!
The music was on point, it really reminded me of the original Godzilla movie.
What an awesome video!
Bonus tip: 7:25 if you play at 0.5x looks like two stoned guys tripping on lightning.
hopefully one day someone will capture the return bolt in slowmo
I'm pretty sure there are cameras that can take light speed in slow motion but the thing is that it'll be much better if it was the size of a phantom for example.
@@awiseseal7559 no, there aren't. What you're talking about is the MIT project that using information from various sensors, a pulsing light source, a still scene, and a camera were able to generate footage at a trillion frames per second. Note that the generation process takes all the hundreds of frames taken and stitches them using the data taken by the sensors.
The camera itself is unable to do this, and I honestly really doubt it'll ever be possible to do it in real time and in any random scene. That's because the data will have to inevitably come out the photosensor (a single pixel) somehow, travel some distance which is limited by, unironically, light speed, and then be processed and stored by electronics that are also limited by light speed.
That means that every single centimeter that you add to the recording pipeline is a centimeter that the light will travel per frame. So if your entire pipeline was one centimeter long, you'd be able to see light travel though a standard 30 cm ruler in a second at 30 fps.
@@davidflores909 Ah well
@@davidflores909 What are you talking about? The camera which would be able to do this could have just multiple sensors. Your info about length of a pipeline also does not make much sense. The fact, that the data are traveling through something (lets say a wire/optical cable.. just for some clear discussion) does not mean, you cant send another data right after it. So you could just capture the light travel in your examle at 200 FPS - if your sensor is able to do so - and then wait till the data are processed. Was majority of modern cameras are not limited by speed of a sensor - but limited by speed and capacity of ram - for this very reason - they cant process the data fast enough to save them - so they just save the raw image data in the ram, till its full and process it afterwards.
@@davidflores909 , surely they could use the mirror method ( /watch?v=vluzeaVvpU0 ) , but have the mirror track the light using computer software, should be good enough for lightning at a medium distance.
So basically God use A* algorithm to program lowest-resistance lightning path finding
Haha basically xD
xD
Hhahahahhahaha
Is it A or An?
@@Rowed A* is the name of algorithm (yes, including the *)
Thor : God of Thunder Joined the Chat!!!
EXCELSIOR 333 Zues : God Of Thunder And the Gods have Left The Chat??
I knew it.. he wouldn't miss this party. 🎶🍻👊
@@Zeonthebrave Hades joined the chat
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if only that many people watched this video after clicking my name SON OF PERDITION
Wow, that was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love stormy weather (only if i'm safe inside or on a balcony^^) and i love thunder and lightning, it is unbelievable every time i watch a storm, how massive the power of nature is. I have so much respect, if i watch a storm! Your record of these lightnings is incredible, i have to stop and play it again, because i can't believe how awesome it looks in slow motion. Thank you for sharing this experience, it was a pleasure to watch this!!!!!
Puts video in .25 speed 🤯
U smart
Still the lightning is fast
You can do that yourself. The gear symbol in the lower right of the video frame has a speed menu item - use that
Error. AMAZING!
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These guys have blessed the world with their terrific passion to enlighten us.
they've not revealed anything that wasn't already known...
@@gameclips5734 Yet they still revealed something that neither you or I could hope to see one day.
I call that a win
Why does 5:00 feel like the first Pokemon movie when Mewtwo creates a storm.
Love you for this comment dude😍
is it the same music??
Daniel Law what is the music?
@@waspbulgasari4498 It's a piece by Mussorgsky called Night on Bald Mountain, it's in fantasia
@@ashharris1036 ohh thanks
I love that the tank video was a chance for Dan to show his expertise, and how this one is for Gav
Now these r the slow mo guys we know...
Not 1000fps slow mo...😭
Yes !
720p 28,500 fps > 2160p 1,000 fps
You don't need 28,000fps to film a fish flying through the air or a giant water spike... They film at the framerates required, do you really want to watch a fish take hours to slap Dan in the face?
Jordan Munroe ...yeah!
And no more buckets of paint in that whirl-around thingy in the desert...
No more fruit catapulted at a car...
Thank you for using my favorite piece of music ever, A Night On Bald Mountain
Really?!! that's the name of the song? because i got stuck on top of a mountain called "Moxie Bald" in a gigantic lightning storm one time. probably doesn't mean much to you guys, but to me, since it was one of the biggest lightning storms i had ever seen, was quite memorable. 😃
Same! It made me so happy that they synced the strikes up with such a dramatic piece. They really did it justice!
When Stormbreaker decides to take their time.
I understood the reference, I think . HTTYD?
@@janethblack6563 ugh
oh my god, you're also here
HTTD AND ALSO AVENGERS
shivam patil ^2 of my favourite franchises
You guys make us observe the nature so minutely!! My eyes got blessed! 😭😭😭
Thanku thanku thanku!! Love you guys ❤
Please can you film Indonesia's corruptors in slow mo? They're really fast when it comes to running away.
Ya bener
awesome comment. pretty sure that could be said for a lot of countries!
@@RedroomStudios That could be a documentation film for a species called "Corruptors"
It's actually a very good idea, the goverment should learn from you.
they are faster than a lightning. We should use more than 200.000. FPS. Lol....
Gavin running down the hotel corridor looking back while holding an expensive camera!
Thor has entered the atmosphere
Ayo
Yao bayo
@@eleanorhill1854 yolo
Actually Palpatine vs Thor
Bano
That was phenomenal, quite literally. Even slowed right down, it still seems to move fast. I noticed that the lightning itself, when the feelers spread out like branches, seem to be multicoloured. As soon as it finds the leader, it lights up white. My husband thought it resembled a load of tadpoles coming down leaving a trail behind them until they made contact, then Bam!!. You should colab with Pecos Hank. That would be absolutely amazing since he finds some amazing storms