Butterfly effect - When a butterfly flaps its wings, it may cause hurricane on the other end of the earth. Compared to what Turing said, "Moving an electron will cause someone to die in an avalanche in a year", the butterfly effect is a more poetic version of Chaos Theory .
There is no doubt that the butterfly's wings will cause slight changes in the atmosphere. So, can it really change the path of the tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the tornado from happening in another place?
Latest research shows that insect swarms, such as bees, can charge up to 1,000 volts per meter, even exceed thunderstorms - indeed changing the weather, local weather.
Everything starts with friction
When tiny bumps and pits on the two surfaces rub against each other, static electricity will be generated. This causes negatively charged electrons to jump from one surface to another, causing one surface to be positively charged while the other surface to be negatively charged - resulting in a voltage difference or potential gradient.
This voltage difference will generate electricity - from what happens when we touch the door handle after taking off our sweaters, to the tiny ice cubes in the clouds rub against each other to lightning that cuts through the sky.
Insects' tiny bodies can carry positive charge when flying—either from the friction between air molecules and their fast-beating wings (bees can flap their wings more than 230 times per second), or from landing on charged surfaces. The influence of these tiny charges of
has always been ignored.
A new study published in the journal iScience yesterday (10.24) shows that the electricity generated by insects is amazing: researchers found that bees can generate as much atmospheric electricity as thunderstorms by measuring the electric field around the hives of European bees (apis melllifera).
When biology meets physics, the relationship between electrostatic field and animals is closely linked.
has many unexpected links on different spatial scales, from microorganisms in soil, the interaction of plants with pollinators, now insect swarms and global electric fields.
The electric swarm of insects
The electrostatic effect of the insect world is very common.
Butterflies and bees attract pollen to their bodies through the electrostatic effect. On the other hand, spiders (not insects) will weave negatively charged webs to attract and lure the positively charged body of prey.
To monitor the intensity of the swarm's electric field, the researchers placed an electric field monitor and a camera near several bee habitats. In different bee colony events such as out of nests, the potential gradient above the beehive increases dramatically, up to 1000 volts per meter.
This makes the charge density of large bee colonies about six times that of charged sandstorms and eight times that of storm cloud .
Scientists also found that denser swarms mean larger electric fields—various swarms of insects, including Hymenoptera (e.g., Wasp and flying ants), isoptera (e.g., termites), Orthoptera (e.g., Locust ), Lepidoptera (e.g., migrating butterflies and moths), Diptera (e.g., mosquitoes, midges and flies), as well as chrysanthesis and Coleoptera .
When locusts gather in swarms to the doomsday scale in the Bible, they can create "worm clouds" of more than 1,000 square kilometers. Their impact on atmospheric electric fields is amazing, and the charge density generated is comparable to that of thunderstorms.
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Although electricity is generated, the insect swarm itself will not produce storms - the potential gradient does not meet the conditions for lightning.
However, the butterfly effect is undoubtedly - the swarms will definitely have other effects on the weather, such as the electric field in the atmosphere can ionize particles of dust and pollutants and change their movements in unpredictable ways.
From biology to physics, to meteorology , interdisciplinary is a very interesting thing, and it is also a way of thinking that is very valuable to us ordinary people - considering the problem from a broader perspective, many things suddenly become clear.
Author thanks for your attention (- _-)
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