Despite its brevity, the life line of the lightning flash has been accurately measured by the cathode ray oscillograph. This is an instrument developed by the General Electric Company at ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

That’s because light and sound travel at different speeds. The lightning flash travels very fast, but the sound of thunder travels much more slowly. And the further away you are, the longer ...