This is in response to your post above, aether, concerning electrostatic being a potential awaiting cascade effect.

I had a flash, but again, it is difficult to describe. I am 'seeing' Toad's thoughts that the universe is actually one uni-verse underlying another uni-verse.

I will give the feeling of this flash, instead of attempting to match it up with anything. The underlying uni-verse contains the static potential. The circuit is the overlaying uni-verse connecting to the underlying uni-verse and connecting back to the overlaying. On connecting back to the overlaying, it pushes the static potential into the overlaying uni-verse which is a cascade type effect.

This image is equating to lightning.