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by dms_ucsc 1943 days ago
I agree it is. And C.T.R. Wilson was talking about it in 1925. But the TGFs mentioned in the article are incredibly bright, and what we're trying to understand (I work in this field) is why one lightning flash makes only a modest amount of x- and gamma-rays, kind of what you might naively expect, and another makes a mind-boggling million times as many, which is not as simply understood.