http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nasa-led-firefly-mission-lightning-video.html
NASA-led firefly mission to study lightning Lightning may be linked to incredibly powerful and energetic bursts called terrestrial gamma ray flashes, or TGFs—remains a mystery. The radiation generated by lightning is so intense that it can generate antimatter and gamma rays within TGFs just a few miles of the ground. NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory first discovered TGFs in the 1990s. Designed to look outward at cosmic sources of gamma rays, the mission also caught rare but tantalizing glimpses of gamma rays coming from Earth. "Gamma rays are thought to be emitted by electrons traveling at or near the speed of light when they're slowed down by interactions with atoms in the upper atmosphere," "TGFs are among our atmosphere's most interesting phenomena." The electrons needed to create gamma rays have to be moving so fast and carrying so much energy, that scientists were at a loss to explain what process near Earth could kick them up to such high speeds. Indeed, prior to the discovery of TGFs, scientists thought electrons moving this fast could only be generated near much larger bodies such as stars, galaxies or black holes. *Lightning by itself is thought to be only a tenth as strong as would be needed to accelerate the electron beams to such incredible speeds,* but scientists have hypothesized that perhaps some lightning is triggered by an electron avalanche, a runaway chain reaction that pushes electrons up to these incredible speeds. Understanding the mechanism for what accelerates the electron beams near Earth will help scientists understand how the same process happens throughout the rest of the universe. "The idea that some of the lightning overhead may be triggered by the same processes that happen in supernovas and cosmic particle accelerators is mind-blowing," *The answer:* Lightning is a LENR process where gamma rays are produced via a transmutation reaction. Science ignores the clear and certain evidence and makes up impossible theories to explain what is easily explained through the Nanoplasmonic theory of LENR. Many seemingly unexplainable and mysterious observations of astrophysical, meteorological and geological processes are really only LENR processes.
