BUT …A group of scientists has linked the presence of macroscopic dark matter to the appearance of extremely rare "straight" lightning bolts.
In a paper published in the journal Physical Review D, researchers from the University of Toronto and Ohio's Case Western University said that chunks of dark matter – known as "macros" – that speed through the atmosphere would produce a "straight channel of ionized plasma" that could induce a lightning strike to appear straight "and thus highly distinctive."
"Macroscopic dark matter (macros) is a broad class of alternative candidates to particle dark matter. These candidates would transfer energy to matter primarily through elastic scattering. A sufficiently large macro passing through the atmosphere would produce a straight channel of ionized plasma," the group said in March. "If the cross section of the macro is σx⪆6×10−9 cm2, then under atmospheric conditions conducive to lightning (e.g., a thunderstorm) the plasma channel would be sufficient to seed a lightning strike with a single leader."
Comparatively, they noted that ordinary bolt lightning is comprised of a "sequence of hundreds or thousands of few-meter-long leaders" strung together.
So yet another gnome with no evidence to support it."The only photographically documented case of a straight lightning bolt is probably not straight enough to have been macro-induced," they said.
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However, if seeing is believing, the scientists have yet to witness this occurrence.
A bolt seen in Zimbabwe in 2015 was close, but not close enough.
And get this!
Remember how the gnome believers ridiculed plasma cosmology/electric universe proponents pointing to geological evidence just like to support their theory?Starkman and the researchers are hoping to continue their search, using networks of meteor cameras, examining electrical storms on Jupiter and by instructing people to examine places where macros might have left a mark like a granite slab countertop.