Grant to fund OU center for study of lightning

 
By David Zizzo
Published: November 6, 2007

It's enough to make your hair stand on end. Literally. By that point, however, William Beasley says, "it's almost always too late.”

Lightning, those arcs of electrical energy so powerful they leap across miles of sky, are among nature's most amazing and, so far, mysterious displays. Beginning with a buildup of static charge that sometimes can be felt and heard on the ground moments before a strike, a bolt of lightn...


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