The difference in electrical potential changes with altitude. The local atmospheric conditions matter to get the lighting started. Those shearing forces due particles movement is a common process during any convection and this is not a cause of lighting. I mean there is always a potential difference in the atmosphere. It is rather breaking the resistance of air by means of high enough potential difference. Stormy weather provides such conditions as the air becomes also more conductive. Same happens during volcanic eruption.

In Heartford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricans hardly ever happen.

Pff, we all know how much power lightning has, it's 1.21 GigaWatts, of course...great scott, how do you not know that!!!!!

Super sir

Before we test out lightning on Dan 🤣

10:37 Screen says Smarter Every D because this is Destin’s camera from smartereveryday.

can someone explain the red lightning every time lightning struck in their video? 5:35

Who ever reads this God has a plan for you. Stay positive and strong. Not for likes just trying to spread the word of God to you...🙏❤

9:27 Can't stop clicking that moment! XD

I love how you guys adored the professor, that was sweet :) And such an easy-going conversation :o

I love all your video

2:46 You know that something is really hot when it doesn't really matter whether you tell the temperature in Kelvin or degrees Celsius ;-)

Static electricity easily kills electronics.)

Nailed the Jeremy Clarkson btw!!!

An electric spark can occur in picoseconds.

Can we see this at 250,000fps?

I'm watching this for School LOL.

5:45 is super super SuPeR epic

Did he say “in the world” like Jeremy Clarkson???

mrpost.info/down/vhi-i/cZVgnX-xu82Y04I Got this from my room!👍

What if you ground out the air A loog koper wire in the clouds would there be no lightning strikes in the area?

Wow

I wonder what ever became of the kid that repeatedly shocked his forehead on the Van DeGraff generator back in high school.

I can become British in one word *zed*

Anyone else notice the "Smarter Every D" bottom left of the TV, is that Destins Camera!!

Why dan is always the scapegoat

Well I think we got more than one bolt in the Van de graff's but they were really tiny cuz :- 1. the distance is too short 2 . The fact that bolt is really fast (the speed doesn't change) but distance is reduced so time is even less , moreoer RESISTANCE of path is less cuz the path itself is less compared to actual one..

Hey .. we want Arabic translations

electro boom would be proud

I love the way you mispronounce "Van de Graaff"

Thanks for making me laugh an awful lot, Dan. Gav appeared to 'learn a lot', but I reckon it was only to never risk ever being - Dan.

Your hair

What about Dan touch that electric ball with his tong

red thunder in left 5:34

why does the drawing of gavin in the whitebpard look like a chad

when I discovered this series, the intros look amazing.

You guys filmed a Van de Graaff WITHOUT going to the Boston Museum of Science? They built a theater around the real one and use it to do lightning shows!

Light has NO SPEED morons!

Anyone else love the intro?

О да, о да. Больше медленный кадров. Nice

I REALLY want one of those cameras lol

at 435 you should just say 632 micro seconds we have prefixes for a reason

At 5:07, if it's going 1/10th speed of light, then at 0.0006s it should go 18km. No way that's 18. Maybe 2.

Methinks someone should paint a Van de Graaff Generator like a globe and set it loose on the world.

I like this channel

THAT is a ridiculous amount of hair on Gav's neck. Like abnormal amount.

It's really funny that Dan didn't seem to know the capacity reduces significantly right after an electric discharge. Which meanthe get a secondary shock while much further from the ball :)) And the standing hair at end of vid is classic!

"I don't know what we would have done. -pub ? -pub. -pub."

I got shocked by one of these in a physics class once because the teacher didn't make sure I wasn't grounded

Gav, you are an evil evil scientist. Dan, you are a treasure trove of laughs. :-) God bless both of you and your families. Keep the Slo-Mo coming. :-)

10:36 Smarter Every D(ay)

As someone with a really low electrical resistance, I feel Dan's pain. I get zapped a lot, especially by car doors. I startled my physics lecturer once when playing around with a multimeter. I had set it to measuring current and held the ends of the leads. I got a pretty high reading. My lab partner tried the same thing and got about a tenth of what I had.

i wanna see that third zap in slow motion, just that look of betrayal he has for a fraction of a second is so funny to me for some reason.

I'm getting over bronchitis and if I keep watching this I'll going into respiratory distress from laughing too much 😂

why is noone talking aboout they captured a red sprite aswel?

We had one of these in school, and I just stuck my whole hand on it. Interesting experience. All my hair stood up, which was great. If you put your hand in your sleeve on one, it’s a much weirder experience.

10:36 Do you borrow that camera from Destin by any chance?

professor smart pants

So weird seeing my homeland predominantly displayed in a youtube channel not based in the very same country.

10:00 when i accidentally hit my elbow on the table

Volts in a bolt...❤

8:08 What’s on the board? Is that the kite Benjamin Franklin used to invent electricity or something?

I love how they got an expert who didn't just stand there all awkward. Dude was awesome.

9:34 you can hear the crew laughing at Dan 🤣

And science says lighting strikes group up lol. Positive to negative is how it works

1:11 'Before we test out lightning on Dan' 😂😂😂😂😂

Wrong wrong wrong. The lightning strike comes close to the ground. The ground shoots a little bolt up to meet the strike.

Dan is a great exponent of starting a handshake early

BOY DO I LOVE WATCHING THESE GUYS!!!!!!!!!

Electroboom does it bare handed😒😒

What’s that red flash?

Every time I sit and watch a couple of Slo Mo Guys videos, I come away with an ache in my jaw from smiling and laughing so much. Even at the older videos, the humor is always perfect.

Love how they’re talking about voltage when it’s the charge that kills😂

10:30 that’s what she said

ok i got a idea tuch a tesla coill on full power i did it

I can't believe you didn't say anything about the red sprite at 5:30 to 6:00 minutes.

10:36 Smarter Every D

We gonna need a faster camera

"Then I could be Thor or Ironman." prof keeping his true identity secret

Earth is an electromagnet:)

Generators don't really pull positive charges up , more than they take negative charges away. Electrons are the thing that are moved usually not the protons. Great vid though.

Turn off the generator. Put your hand on the generator ball. Turn on the generator and let it run long enough to make they hair on your head stand up, THEN take your hand off the ball. I dare you.

Were these guys on youtube rewind?

2:48 "30,000 Kelvin or centigrade". I'm pretty sure kelvin and centigrade are very different measurements

careful with a VG you can injure muscles from the current causing them to twitch unnaturally. i injured my forearm demonstrating one i think i was hit too hard or too many times. it was a college project not a very powerful unit but it was pretty strong. it pulled the same muscles you would injure if you have tennis elbow and it lasted on and off for about 4 years. be careful!!

does anyone else notice how different his hair look after it panned to the next scene lmaooo 10:38

the ZAP counter.

That professor is awesome

Dan and Gav has lots of clones

Jeepers the things Dan does for Gavin. :P

3:54 “Thanks other Bill!”

You over abuse ur friend gav

His hair stands up after getting shocked so many times!

Gav always has his left sideburn fresh and his right sideburn all patchy

The old dude has good humor

You guys do the most amazing stuff I feel a lot of lightning but never have I seen the feelers like you’ve shown great stuff guys thank you

Yo please record a Tesla coil super slow!?!?!?

Why does Dan do all the stuff?

Awesome, but... you've got it wrong, about how lightning being created. There is no "ice particles hitting each other", that cannot generate charge, because you will need DIFFERENT materials rubbing each other to create a static charge. Charge accumulates mostly during water awaperation, so basicly the ammount of OH- particles is not equal to the H+ particles in the vapour, so there is an actual charge being send to the sky, and also there is a solar radiation, that is why there is more lightning on a planet at a specific time (when solar radiation hits weak spots in magnitisphere) and where the is a lot of water.

9:22 can't stop laughing!