Gave Early man their first taste of fear for the almightly whether existent or not it. Kickstarted religion for the earliest form of man. Eventually leading to the evolution of religion into the hundreds of religions today.
You see the lightening, and hear the thunder.
A lighting bolt is a strike of light through the sky and if your looking this up WOW!:PIt is a lightening discharge between/within clouds and the ground
air molecules
Lightening is different to thunder in which it does not make the same loud boom. Lightening is shiny and a metallic grey/yellow colour. It never appears for more that a few seconds and occurs on stormy days. Lightning itself canreach aprroximatley 54000 degrees fahrenhite. Thats is 6 times hotter than the sun!
Thunder and lightning occur simultaneously because they are both produced by the same atmospheric phenomenon: a lightning strike. When lightning flashes, it superheats the air around it causing it to rapidly expand and create a shock wave that we hear as thunder, which is why we perceive the two events as happening at the same time.
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A lightening bolt.
A lightening bolt?
His lightening bolt can be used again and again.
Since the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, you will see the lightening bolt first. If you count the seconds between the two, you will have a rough estimate as to how far away the lightening bolt is.
zeus' master bolt was stolen lilapell
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The idea that lightening was electricity struck Ben Franklin like a bolt from the blue.
I usually bolt down my food but today i felt to ill to eat. Inspiration struck like a bolt of lightening.
In Greek mythology, it was Zeus who wielded a lightning bolt. The Roman equivalent would be Jupiter or Jove.
you can get hit by a lightening bolt from god... but thats pretty much it
zeus is the god of all gods. His symbol is the lightening bolt