{"id":18714,"date":"2015-10-24T10:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicist-finds-mysterious-anti-electron-clouds-inside-thunderstorm"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:46","slug":"physicist-finds-mysterious-anti-electron-clouds-inside-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicist-finds-mysterious-anti-electron-clouds-inside-thunderstorm","title":{"rendered":"Physicist finds mysterious anti-electron clouds inside thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicist-finds-mysterious-anti-electron-clouds-inside-thunderstorm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A terrifying few moments flying into the top of an active thunderstorm in a research aircraft has led to an unexpected discovery that could help explain the longstanding mystery of how lightning gets initiated inside a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>University of New Hampshire physicist Joseph Dwyer and lightning science colleagues from the University of California at Santa Cruz and Florida Tech describe the turbulent encounter and discovery in a paper to be published in the <i>Journal of Plasma Physics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2009, Dwyer and colleagues were aboard a National Center for Atmospheric Research Gulfstream V when it inadvertently flew into the extremely violent thunderstorm\u2014and, it turned out, through a large cloud of positrons, the antimatter opposite of electrons, that should not have been there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-05-physicist-mysterious-anti-electron-clouds-thunderstorm.html?utm_source=menu&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=item-menu\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrifying few moments flying into the top of an active thunderstorm in a research aircraft has led to an unexpected discovery that could help explain the longstanding mystery of how lightning gets initiated inside a thunderstorm. University of New Hampshire physicist Joseph Dwyer and lightning science colleagues from the University of California at Santa [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69316,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions\/69316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}