The Surprising Effects of Lightning
Lots of “what happens if” questions have to do with lightning. While we’re all familiar with lightning, it turns out that we don’t know all that much about its effects when it strikes (and we hope to never experience it firsthand). Here you can see what happened to a piece of wood when it was struck by lightning.
There aren’t any fulgurites or silica glass here, but this is pretty darn cool! The pattern left by the lightning looks like a tree, or perhaps a bunch of veins branching off of an artery. It’s absolutely amazing to see what nature can create, and although human hands could surely replicate this, we’re not sure if they could match this natural masterpiece.