Just Fulgur It Out

[Grumblenuts]

To understand electricity is to understand nature. Studying fulgurites helps one better understand electricity.

Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning', and -ite), commonly known as "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground.

Fulgurites, sometimes called “petrified lightning” and “lightning stones,” are natural tubes of glass formed by the fusion of silica (quartz) sand or rock from a lightning strike. Their shape mimics the path of the lightning bolt as it hit the ground.

That's where lightning contacts the Earth. But wait, there's more..

Fulgurites are structurally similar to Lichtenberg figures, which are the branching patterns produced on surfaces of insulators during dielectric breakdown by high-voltage discharges, such as lightning.

Lichtenberg figures:

Modern 3D Lichtenberg figures or "electrical treeing" in a block of clear acrylic, created by irradiating the block with an electron beam. Actual size: 80 mm × 80 mm × 50 mm (3 in × 3 in × 2 in)

J.J. Thompson described what he saw in his cathode ray experiments simply as "corpuscles." Fulgurites are often described as hollow or full of tubular holes. What do you see (in relation to electricity)?

 

[Donald H]

How is any of this bringing an understanding of nature?

 

[Concerned American]

To understand electricity is to understand nature. Studying fulgurites helps one better understand electricity.

That's where lightning contacts the Earth. But wait, there's more..

Lichtenberg figures:

J.J. Thompson described what he saw in his cathode ray experiments simply as "corpuscles." Fulgurites are often described as hollow or full of tubular holes. What do you see (in relation to electricity)?

The movie Sweet Home Alabama was the first place I ever heard of this phenomena. Very interesting. Thanks.

 

[Grumblenuts]

How is any of this bringing an understanding of nature?

As indicated, one must better understand electricity first. Unlearn what one has learned. One has to feel the electricity. Just as a Jedi's strength flows from the Force, a lightning bolt will flow, back and forth, quite naturally through great resistance to neutralize dipoles of great difference.

Sure, lightning appears violent to us. "To strike!" as I hear them so often say in Wiki Land. But the Aether cares not about time or speed. Specific properties of matter determine the period of such things. Their sudden, explosive nature fools us into seeing them as directional. However, from either party's perspective, Earth or cloud, what goes on is just a ringing, periodic exchange of energy.

Normally invisible to us, the "electrical treeing" shown above, or "Lichtenberg effect," is how the Aether senses its paths of least resistance and builds accordingly. Once chosen, a path exchanges increasing current, heating the air, for example, to allow for more plasmatic energy transfer.

 

[Hollie]

How is any of this bringing an understanding of nature?

Understanding the force of electricity is to understand a force of nature.

 

[Concerned American]

Understanding the force of electricity is to understand a force of nature.

The duck is a lost cause, he doesn't understand simple arithmetic let alone the concept of spontaneous electrical generation.

 

[Mushroom]

Once chosen, a path exchanges increasing current, heating the air, for example, to allow for more plasmatic energy transfer.

Did you really just use a porn actress and punk band as part of your argument?

 

[Grumblenuts]

Did you really just use a porn actress and punk band as part of your argument?

Do you really possess absolutely no sense of humor?

 

[Mushroom]

Do you really possess absolutely no sense of humor?

Do you think I would have said that if I had no sense of humor?

The irony is, I wrote a novel a few years ago and actually referenced that very music video. And had people writing me letters wondering if I was making it up, or there really was a music video with a school bus crashing through a wall of televisions.

I could hear them chatting as Keith and I watched a video come up. Now even though I had been out here for about six months, some of the music still confused me. After hearing and watching three minutes of a band screaming into the mic over screaming guitars, I turned to Keith and asked “What in the hell does this mean?”

“What, the song?”

“The song, the video, everything! I mean, OK, a chick in a mohawk is kinda strange, and kinky in all that Mad Max leather. But crashing a school bus through a wall of televisions, then having it explode?”

“Dude, it’s about commercialism and the destruction of the world. That’s what about half of what punk rock is about. Although it seems that with this latest album the Plasmatics are going more metal than punk.”

“Well, if you say so. Although to be honest, it still sounds more like noise than music to me."

 

[Grumblenuts]

Do you think I would have said that if I had no sense of humor?

The irony is, I wrote a novel a few years ago and actually referenced that very music video. And had people writing me letters wondering if I was making it up, or there really was a music video with a school bus crashing through a wall of televisions.

Good. Thing is, attempting to better understand nature is no argument. It's just what sane people do. Discard the purely speculative. Poke at the clearly observable for clues rather than simply accept claims of institutional apologists and experts who appear to make little or no sense when rarely confronted with tough questions. Even Eric Dollard never pretends to know anything satisfactorily, let alone absolutely. We seek better, not perfect understanding.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Understanding the force of electricity is to understand a force of nature.

Donald's was a good question though (to me anyway) it initially suggested impatience with my introductory statement.

To understand electricity is to understand nature. Studying fulgurites helps one better understand electricity.

How is any of this bringing an understanding of nature?

Like, "Hey, just cut to the chase, man." So I'm feeling like, "Hey, slow down. This is just the beginning of an adventure we can all engage in together at a nice, leisurely pace."

In turn, toward you I'm thinking, 'Hey, what's with this "force" stuff all of a sudden? Is electricity best described as a force? Nature, a collection of forces? In a "times distance equals work sense" or what?'

Well, to cut to the chase, I find each (electricity, nature, and the Aether) vastly the same while expecting none to agree with me, certainly not yet at least. Understanding is largely a process of elimination. There is much to be unlearned..

 

[Grumblenuts]

Alright, just to move things forward a bit,..
What does this look like or suggest to you? A bush? Tree? How many things?

How about upside down? Sideways? What does each have in common with the rest?

 

[Hollie]

Donald's was a good question though (to me anyway) it initially suggested impatience with my introductory statement.


Like, "Hey, just cut to the chase, man." So I'm feeling like, "Hey, slow down. This is just the beginning of an adventure we can all engage in together at a nice, leisurely pace."

In turn, toward you I'm thinking, 'Hey, what's with this "force" stuff all of a sudden? Is electricity best described as a force? Nature, a collection of forces? In a "times distance equals work sense" or what?'

Well, to cut to the chase, I find each (electricity, nature, and the Aether) vastly the same while expecting none to agree with me, certainly not yet at least. Understanding is largely a process of elimination. There is much to be unlearned..

I think it’s appropriate to define natural forces such as gravity and lightning as phenomena which most certainly can be described and defined. Newton developed a pretty elegant formula for gravity: Fg = Gm1m2 / R2.

Forces of nature such as erosion and weathering are forces capable of reducing mountains and creating valleys. On smaller scales, science can even describe the weak nuclear force.

 

[Hollie]

Alright, just to move things forward a bit,..
What does this look like or suggest to you? A bush? Tree? How many things?

How about upside down? Sideways? What does each have in common with the rest?

The general structure repeats often in nature. The branches of a tree, those “just at the right time” photos of lightning flashes, earth satellite photos of streams as tributaries to rivers, etc.

 

[Grumblenuts]

I think it’s appropriate to define natural forces such as gravity and lightning as phenomena which most certainly can be described and defined. Newton developed a pretty elegant formula for gravity: Fg = Gm1m2 / R2.

Forces of nature such as erosion and weathering are forces capable of reducing mountains and creating valleys. On smaller scales, science can even describe the weak nuclear force.

I appreciate whenever one can define their own terms within a given context. The term "natural force" has seemingly endless connotations though in common parlance. Newton's formula is definitely elegant and useful. One might say a force of nature in and of itself. I say scientists can describe things. Science just means "study of" or "to study systematically," as in "scientific method."

 

[Grumblenuts]

The general structure repeats often in nature. The branches of a tree, those “just at the right time” photos of lightning flashes, earth satellite photos of streams as tributaries to rivers, etc.

Sand patterns left by retreating waves?

Underwater color bursts?

Fireworks?

Geese?

 

[Grumblenuts]

I don't think the last 3 pictured above ^ actually fit. What's missing?

 

[Grumblenuts]

..and crickets..

 

[ding]

I don't think the last 3 pictured above ^ actually fit. What's missing?

Is it the aether?