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Re:What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Inte... by pfdietz on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:27AM (#48073765)
Cosmic rays are mostly protons, not electrons or positrons. You're mixing up to separate theories in the article.
Re:What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Inte... by nirse on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:17AM (#48074371)
Well, the primary particles that hit the atmosphere are mostly protons. They cause avalanche of secondaires that are varied but mostly muons,
Re:What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Inte... by sidewndr46 on Saturday May 09, 2026 @11:11AM (#48075612)
As others have mentioned you are correct. But Earth's atmosphere has plenty of all forms of matter. A proton can interact with mostly anything and accelerate it. So you can find high energy everything in low earth orbit.