How is possible for lightning to be 5 times hotter than the Sun?
In: Planetary Science
The sun is a 20 ton slab of concrete smacking you.
Lightning is a 20 ton *needle* coming at you.
Needle = energy focused at one point.
That is to say, the key to it all is how incredibly short-lived and instant lightning strikes are. It’s a lot of energy packed into one small place. More sigifigantly, all that energy is dispersed over *an extremely short time*.
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