And, while we’re admiring displays of light in the skies of the Earth, here’s some great video of lightning in slow motion.
Slow motion, I have just learned, was invented in 1904 by August Musger, an Austrian priest and physicist.
Boy, those are two occupations you don’t typically find in one man. It sounds like the start of a joke: A priest and a physicist walk into a bar… or perhaps they are playing golf. Anyway, that’s the sort of joke it sounds like the start of. I mean, “of which it sounds like the start.”
Musger is also notable for having an extraordinarily brief Wikipedia entry. But, then, who am I to talk?