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Apparently Zetsu's statement was debunked here, but it is still used in calculations.
1. First of all, age doesn't necessarily equal knowledge. Black Zetsu is a renowned liar and he isn't a scientific source, though that's not to say he's lying about his statement, but I'd take Orochimaru's word over his regarding anything scientific. There's no reason that lightning in the Narutoverse should be any faster than lightning in the real world, nor are there any differences between the rest of the elements in the Narutoverse and our world. Its more likely the author doesn't know lightning's speed.
2. The statement itself is wrong. It says the speed of lightning is a timeframe, 1/1000th of a second, which isn't a speed. We can provide any distance that falls in the range of cumulonimbus clouds, but they're just safe guesses. His surrounding information is incorrect as well. He stated nobody could evade it, but Itachi did (in the worst of conditions at that), therefore people like Madara, Hashirama, Pain, etc. could.
(Evade: to take refuge in escape or avoidance. Itachi avoided direct contact with the lightning.)
3. It adds confusion to the story when you remember Kakashi's raikiri got its nickname when he cut lightning with the jutsu.
4. We use that value for one feat, Kirin. We systematically use our wiki's lightning values for every other lightning calculation.
There's a misconception that senjutsu makes a nature art jutsu use real energy, thus making its properties the same as its naturally occurring source, but that isn't the case.
Fukusaku states the difference between ninjutsu and senjutsu. Senjutsu just adds outside/natural energy to internal chakra to have more powerful chakra/ jutsu. Natural energy is just the energy of Earth.
I haven't found anything that alludes to natural energy making a technique "more real".
1. First of all, age doesn't necessarily equal knowledge. Black Zetsu is a renowned liar and he isn't a scientific source, though that's not to say he's lying about his statement, but I'd take Orochimaru's word over his regarding anything scientific. There's no reason that lightning in the Narutoverse should be any faster than lightning in the real world, nor are there any differences between the rest of the elements in the Narutoverse and our world. Its more likely the author doesn't know lightning's speed.
2. The statement itself is wrong. It says the speed of lightning is a timeframe, 1/1000th of a second, which isn't a speed. We can provide any distance that falls in the range of cumulonimbus clouds, but they're just safe guesses. His surrounding information is incorrect as well. He stated nobody could evade it, but Itachi did (in the worst of conditions at that), therefore people like Madara, Hashirama, Pain, etc. could.
(Evade: to take refuge in escape or avoidance. Itachi avoided direct contact with the lightning.)
3. It adds confusion to the story when you remember Kakashi's raikiri got its nickname when he cut lightning with the jutsu.
4. We use that value for one feat, Kirin. We systematically use our wiki's lightning values for every other lightning calculation.
There's a misconception that senjutsu makes a nature art jutsu use real energy, thus making its properties the same as its naturally occurring source, but that isn't the case.
Fukusaku states the difference between ninjutsu and senjutsu. Senjutsu just adds outside/natural energy to internal chakra to have more powerful chakra/ jutsu. Natural energy is just the energy of Earth.
I haven't found anything that alludes to natural energy making a technique "more real".
