SciShow: From Thunderstorms to Black Holes: 4 Natural Particle Accelerators

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Content of the Lesson: This episode is made in partnership with our friends at What’s Watt, a new show about electricity. Head to their channel now to learn more about this invisible topic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG8x6mfdooHWxHFUMiaH67w/featured We've been making particle accelerators for more than a century and have accelerated particles to more than 99.9999% the speed of light. But our accelerators are nothing compared to some of the ones we've found in nature! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Interviews with: Joseph Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Hayley Allison, GFZ Helmholtz Center Potsdam Richard Horne, British Antarctic Survey Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory James Matthews, University of Cambridge Ke Fang, University of Wisconsin-Madison https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/lightning https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.062001 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007JD009248 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GL077784 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-019-0168-y https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1256/qj.05.218 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18053-z https://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/991.abstract https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12889 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/98GL01002 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12561-3 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL070084 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1635109-electron-acceleration-laboratory-produced-turbulent-collisionless-shocks https://academic.oup.com/ptps/article/doi/10.1143/PTPS.143.149/1875399 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.466.5800&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9711177.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1241 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.245101 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.06587.pdf Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/abstract-lights-motion-speed-radial-lines-background-abstract-design-template-for-gm1171410617-324515967 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linear_accelerator_animation_16frames_1.6sec.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Allen_Belts.ogv https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/alice-detector-experiments-gm187612825-29611660 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lightning-in-the-night-sky-during-a-thunderstorm-gm656192770-119435927 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-hailing-selective-focus-on-small-hail-balls-gm1284321596-381491415 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/cartoon-gloved-hands-collection-gm1076977508-288458678 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/clouds-cloudscape-background-gm1178153898-329183896 https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_219.html https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sky-with-rain-clouds-before-the-storm-gm960885850-262388123 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/thunderstorm-with-lightning-and-dark-storm-clouds-gm882528502-245585361 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/passage-through-the-fogsteamsmoke-isolated-on-black-with-alpha-channel-production-quality-footage-for-digital-compositing-roaqmwxahk3lp8cc4 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12452 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Allen_radiation_belt.svg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/science/magnetosphere2.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12328 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ue7cEocvI&ab_channel=NASAGoddard https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/planet-or-star-explosion-gm121696350-17114961 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/234108.php https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/blue-glowing-plasma-lines-with-partocles-abstract-background-gm669685520-122392715 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ue7cEocvI&ab_channel=NASAGoddard https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/computer-simulated-image-of-a-supermassive-black-hole https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13773 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/magnetic-fields-may-be-the-key-to-black-hole-activity https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blackhole-gm476758516-66264155 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13773


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