Russian scientists have revealed the mechanism by which lightning emits energy: a link has been established between X-rays, radio waves and light waves using laboratory experiments

Specialists from the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have created for the first time a detailed time map of radiation accompanying atmospheric discharges similar to lightning, which were reproduced in laboratory conditions. They analyzed high-frequency (10–100 MHz), ultra-high-frequency (1–6 GHz) radiation, as well as X-ray and optical radiation in the infrared and …