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runaway breakdown

Initionally, I planned to do a work with a horse galopping through the sky. However, during some background search about lightning, which I wanted to add to express dynamic, I came across the technical term "runaway breakdown", which describes some weird behaviour of electrons in thunderstorm-clouds, connected with the genesis of the phenomenon, we know as "lightning".
I won't pretend to have understood it, but I instantly loved the idea of electrons stampeding through the clouds. Besides, I trhink, this makes an excellent title...;) for further reading:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_breakdown

In-depth-information here:

www.phy.olemiss.edu/~jgladden/phys510/spring06/Gurevich.pdf .

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012

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