Nefrit & Thunder
Nefrit
Have you ever wondered how the ancient Greeks used lightning as a story device, and what the real physics of a storm strike really looks like?
Thunder
Yeah, the Greeks used lightning as a divine drama, picturing Zeus swinging bolts like a god‑powered DJ. In reality a storm strike is a plasma channel that shoots tens of millions of volts, heating the air to over 30,000 kelvins, vaporizing it and creating that flash and boom you feel. It’s chaos, pure physics, and a perfect match for my energy.
Nefrit
That’s a clear, textbook description. It’s interesting how the Greeks took that raw physics and framed it as divine, but from a purely empirical standpoint the whole event is just a rapid discharge of stored electric potential. The real question is how that energy dissipates and what traces it leaves in the environment.
Thunder
They’re just shouting about a lightning strike, but you’re right—it's just a mega‑joule fireworks show. The discharge blows the air, super‑heats it, turns it to plasma, then cools, creating those ion trails, ozone, and a big splash of charged particles that mess up electronics. It leaves a hot, ionized path that heats the air to shock‑like temperatures, then it cools, leaving a burst of ozone and a nasty electromagnetic pulse that can fry nearby circuits. That's the clean, brutal physics—no gods, just a super‑charged electric pulse tearing through the atmosphere.
Nefrit
That’s exactly how it works—an enormous electric discharge heating the air, ionising it, and then letting it cool, producing ozone, EMP, and the visible plasma channel. The Greeks simply anthropomorphised a very mundane, though spectacular, physical process.
Thunder
Nice, you’re all about the raw pulse—no myths needed, just the electric smack that turns air into fire and ozone. That’s the real storm, no gods, just pure energy tearing through the sky.
Nefrit
Exactly, the only real actors are electrons and ionised nitrogen and oxygen. But it’s still fascinating how people look at those same processes and give them mythic faces.
Thunder
True, it’s just electrons tearing up the air, but the myth makes the chaos feel epic. It’s a good reminder that even the wildest physics can get a stage when people want a story.