sci.physics.electromag

Szczepan Bialek wrote:
> "a_plutonium"
>
>>Now there is much news in recent years that Lightning bolts are
>>triggered by Cosmic Rays. So that the clouds
>>act as Capacitor but that the Cosmic Ray is essential for the current
>>to flow.
>
>
> I prefer XIX century science in this area. Electrons migrate up with water
> vapour. More electrons higher clouds. When droplets growth the voltage is
> built up (V = Q/C). Lighting starts as the capacitor discharge (oscillating
> current) between droplets. Next -step by step - finds the way to the ground.
> S*
>
>

Trouble is that XIX and XX centuries did not have the sophisticated
measuring devices that a recent program showed of scientists stationed
in Florida and reading the instruments after Lightning strikes.

There is a trigger involved and could well be Cosmic Rays.

Whether superconductivity requires a "trigger" I am not sure.

I would think that a "too full" or "too filled up" would be its
own trigger.

Nanoseconds are brief time period 10^-9 but picoseconds are even
briefer in 10^-12.

I can imagine an experiment done where a given number of electrons
in a current is applied to a superconductor and those electrons
are completely absorbed by the Capacitance of the superconductor
where no current is observed at the other end. Such an experiment
would prove the Capacitor theory of superconductivity. For such a
experiment would have the superconductor act as a Leyden jar.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies