Laser Lightning
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 04 15th, 2008 | no responses
Kasparian’s laser, courtesy of CNRS
Being able to control lightning has long been a goal of science. Benjamin Franklin helped discover how to attract it and rockets have been triggering lightning strikes since the 1970s. But now a group of European physicists are trying to generate a lightning strike and control it. And, they are doing it with lasers.
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