The natural world around us is simply teeming with various secrets and mysteries. Scientists have been looking for answers for centuries and trying to explain sometimes inexplicable facts, but even the best minds of mankind still defy some amazing natural phenomena.
Sometimes one gets the impression that incomprehensible flashes in the sky, spontaneously moving stones do not mean anything special. But, delving into the mysterious manifestations observed on our planet, you understand that it is impossible to answer many questions. Nature carefully hides its secrets, and people put forward new hypotheses, trying to unravel them.
Today we will look at physical phenomena in wildlife that will make you take a fresh look at the world around us.
Physical phenomena
Every body is made up of certain substances, but note that different actions affect the same bodies differently. For example, if paper is torn in half, paper will remain paper. But if you set it on fire, then ash will remain from it.
When the size, shape, state changes, but the substance remains the same and does nottransforms into something else, such phenomena are called physical. They may vary.
Natural phenomena, examples of which we can observe in everyday life, are:
- Mechanical. The movement of clouds across the sky, the flight of an airplane, the fall of an apple.
- Thermal. caused by temperature changes. In the course of this, the characteristics of the body change. If ice is heated, it becomes water, which transforms into steam.
- Electrical. Surely, when you quickly take off your woolen clothes, you have at least once heard a specific crack, similar to an electric discharge. And if you do all this in a dark room, you can still observe sparks. Objects that, after friction, begin to attract lighter bodies are called electrified. Aurora borealis, lightning during a thunderstorm are prime examples of an electrical phenomenon.
- Illuminated. Bodies that emit light are called light phenomena. These include the Sun, lamps and even representatives of the animal world: some species of deep-seated fish and fireflies.
Physical phenomena of nature, examples of which we have considered above, are successfully used by people in everyday life. But there are those that still excite the minds of scientists and cause universal admiration.
Northern Lights
Perhaps this natural phenomenon rightfully has the status of the most romantic. High in the sky, multi-colored rivers form and cover an endless number of bright stars.
Ifif you want to enjoy this beauty, it is best to do it in the northern part of Finland (Lapland). There was a belief that the cause of the Northern Lights is the wrath of the supreme gods. But more popular was the legend of the Sámi people about a fabulous fox that struck its tail on the snow-covered plains, because of which colored sparks soared up and lit up the night sky.
Tube-shaped clouds
Such a phenomenon of nature can drag any person into a state of relaxation, inspiration, illusions for a long time. Such sensations are created due to the shape of large pipes that change their shade.
You can see it in those places where a storm front begins to form. This natural phenomenon is most often observed in countries with a tropical climate.
Stones that move in Death Valley
There are various natural phenomena, examples of which are quite understandable from a scientific point of view. But there are some that defy human logic. Moving stones are considered one of the mysteries of nature. This phenomenon can be observed in the American national park called Death Valley. Many scientists try to explain the movement by strong winds, which are often found in desert areas, and by the presence of ice, since it was in winter that the movement of stones became more intense.
During the research, scientists made observations of 30 stones, the weight of which was no more than 25 kg. In seven years, 28 blocks of stone out of 30 moved 200meters from the starting point.
Whatever the guesses of scientists, they have no definite answer regarding this phenomenon.
Fireballs
The fireball that appears after or during a thunderstorm is called ball lightning. There is an assumption that Nikola Tesla managed to create ball lightning in his laboratory. He wrote that he had not seen anything like this in nature (it was about fireballs), but he figured out how they form, and even managed to recreate this phenomenon.
Scientists of our time have not been able to achieve such results. And some even question the existence of this phenomenon as such.
We have considered only some natural phenomena, examples of which show how amazing and mysterious our world around us is. How much more unknown and interesting we have to learn in the process of development and improvement of science. How many discoveries lie ahead of us?
