Slow Motion Lightning

"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." -Joseph Addison           In the video, slow motion lightning is captured. In the process electrons of the order of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000  are exchanged in a single bolt between the clouds and the Earth's surface.This is the basic phenomenon of Lightning (transfer of charge from sky towards ground with air in between)

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