Stealing celestial fire [artificial lightning].
By shining powerful laser pulses between two electrodes, a group of French and German scientists found that they can elicit a controllable form of lightning. Using pulses from the Teramobile laser, electrons are ripped from air molecules creating a plasma and the refractive index of the air is chang...
| Izdano u: | IEEE spectrum 42, 4 (2005). |
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| Format: | Članak |
| Jezik: | English |
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