The fork clears

2002/04/10 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Klima

The fork of the rays has to do with the route of the rivers. This has been seen by a group of researchers from Amsterdam.

The behavior of nature is quite similar in some cases. The distribution of dunes and desert zebra lines, for example, seems quite similar. They also have to see lightning, snowflake, river and body circulating apparatus. Leonardo da Vinci called the rivers "Veins of the Earth".

But that similarity is no coincidence. The underlying reason has recently been discovered by researchers from Amsterdam using computer simulations. In fact, the mathematical equations that govern these processes are equal.

In the 1980s, scientists identified Laplacian Growth. This explains the bifurcations that occur at the border between two substances, as well as in the case of lightning. The rays are columns of electrically charged gases that must be expanded through another substance, so they have dedicated themselves to research and concluded that Laplacian Growth is responsible for the expansion of the rays.

In 1984 a simple model of branched electric sparks was developed in Switzerland, but the main novelty of this latest work is the formation and movement of free ions and electrons moving through ionized air.