While antimatter isn't as rare as most people think, fining it being generated by lightning is surprizing.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... _lightning
antimatter detected in lightning
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Re: antimatter detected in lightning
Yeah that is neat. I guess the super lightning bolts act as a linac and anti particle are found in the debris of the resulting high energy collisions. I believe this is related.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/ ... sprite.htm
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/ ... sprite.htm