Spectrum | 26.11.2008 | 00:30
A Moment of Science
Exploding trees -- fact or fiction?
In a scene from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, one of the characters watches as a lightning bolt strikes a large oak tree. The tree is utterly destroyed in a gigantic explosion. This might make good story-telling but could such a thing really happen? Let’s find out from Don Glass in a moment of science.











