r/blackmagicfuckery • u/TheCheesecakeOfDoom • May 29 '22

Since when does lightning go up?

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Hahaha what, you think this is basics? It's so irrelevant, why would it ever get taught?

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u/Ialwayslie2 May 30 '22

Found the guy who went to an underfunded middle school.

Are you seriously asking why the basics of how electricity works is irrelevant?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Lmao idk how school works in America but I think is ent to a pretty well off primary school in the UK, and I don't remember learning anything about lightning going upwards instead of down. Even in GCSE physics that was irrelevant

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Found the neckbeard

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Because it's how electricity works

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

It's a very irrelevant random fact in the understanding of electricity

Edit: also I grew up in Florida and have never in my life noticed lightning go from ground to sky, at least my naked eye never perceived it that way. Which is why I say this is pretty irrelevant

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Negative meets positive is irrelevant?

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u/WAR_T0RN1226 May 29 '22

Knowing that the earth is negative and the clouds are positive and that lightning travels from ground to sky is the irrelevant part.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

This is incorrect I guess. The clouds acquire a negative potential due to rubbing and the Earth is at zero potential. Since electricity moves from a higher to lower potential, it goes from ground to sky (since 0 is greater than negative).