EarthProfessor

The "Professor" represents our team of researchers and writers. Both adults and kids have tons of questions about our planet. Our job is to answer them!

Does lightning hurt?

Burns aren’t the only way lightning will hurt you. A lightning strike can act as a massive fibrillator, upsetting the heart’s electrical rhythm and causing cardiac arrest. That’s in addition to bursting blood vessels and damaging the cardiac muscles. When I was writing we ran into the inquiry “What are the effects of getting struck …

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