Dec 4, 2021 · @AgniusVasiliauskas - He means how fast does a bolt of lightning advance. See Lightning in Wikipedia for a slow motion video.

Apr 27, 2017 · The reason why lightning is so fast is because you're seeing the effects of the electric field propagating through air. What follows is very informal but perhaps more digestible.

Mar 21, 2014 · Since the speed of light is so fast as to be considered instantaneous in this situation, the time it took the sound to get to you tells you how far away the lightning struck.

Aug 25, 2017 · However, all the free electrons in the lightning's path will be moving in the same direction, on average. This is called the drift velocity and it's quite slow, though I don't have an …

Jul 10, 2024 · You set up the experiment such that "lightning strikes occur simultaneously at the front and rear end of the train as viewed from an observer at a platform". This means that the single clock …

Feb 7, 2019 · How "quickly" does lightning propagate, and what are the main contributing factors to the propagation speed (e.g density of clouds etc)? What exactly is propagating? It can't be light, since it's …

Dec 6, 2022 · 1 As per wiki: The electric current within a typical negative CG lightning discharge rises very quickly to its peak value in 1–10 microseconds, then decays more slowly over 50–200 …

Nov 16, 2013 · Whether the movement affects the static charge of the object and whether this charge would be sufficient to affect the likelihood of attracting lightning strike. Disclaimer These are …

Aug 23, 2014 · 3 Obviously, it is theoretically possible for something to move so fast that you hardly notice it. The second part, about "confined space" implies that it must also be able to accelerate and …

Feb 14, 2022 · 7 I'm comparing lightning and fire - both are related to ionisation of air but lightning happens so fast in a blink of an eye while fire goes on until it runs out of fuel. My question is: despite …