Lightning is one of the most stunning displays in nature. Lightning, the thunderbolt from myths, has long been feared as an atmospheric flash of paranormal origins: the immense weapon of the gods. The Greeks both wondered and feared lightning as it was thrown by Zeus. For the Vikings, lightning was formed by Thor as his hammer struck an anvil at the time as riding his chariot across the clouds. In the East, early statues of Buddha illustrate him carrying a thunderbolt with arrows at each end. Indian tribes in North America thought that lightning was because of the flashing feathers of a mystical bird whose flapping wings created the sound of thunder. At present, scientific somewhat than mystical techniques are used to elucidate lightning with experimental procedures replacing instinctive concepts. However, we remain in awe of lightning which still shines with its anonymity, and rightly so. Every year, lightning is accountable for the deaths of a hundred or so people, injuries to a number of hundred more, and millions of dollars in property damage, in the United States alone.
Lightning is as well one of the most lethal natural fact known to man. With bolt temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun as well as shockwaves beaming out in all directions, lightning is a lesson in physical science and modesty. Beyond its influential beauty, lightning puts forward science with one of its greatest local mysteries. It is common knowledge that lightning is produced in electrically charged storm systems; however the method of cloud charging still remains indefinable. (Glassner, Andrew S., "The Digital Ceraunoscope: Synthetic Lightning and Thunder, 2000)
Since the ice particles within a cloud named hydrometeors grow and interact, they collide, fracture and break into pieces....
