292:, 4 November 1749, was taking an observation just before noon...he observed a large ball of blue fire about three miles distant from them. They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell. By this explosion the main top-mast was shattered into pieces and the main mast went down to the keel. Five men were knocked down and one of them very bruised. Just before the explosion, the ball seemed to be the size of a large mill-stone.
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microwave radiation. The latter ionizes the local air and the radiation pressure evacuates the resulting plasma, forming a spherical plasma bubble that stably traps the radiation. Microwaves trapped inside the ball continue to generate plasma for a moment to maintain the bright flashes described in observer accounts. The ball eventually fades as the radiation held within the bubble starts to decay and microwaves are discharged from the sphere. The lightning balls can dramatically explode as the structure destabilizes. The theory could explain many of the strange characteristics of ball lightning. For instance, microwaves are able to pass through glass, which helps to explain why balls could be formed indoors.
390:. This ball rolled across without doing any harm to two women and a young man who were here; but on getting into an adjoining stable it exploded and killed a pig which happened to be shut up there, and which, knowing nothing about the wonders of thunder and lightning, dared to smell it in the most rude and unbecoming manner. The motion of such balls is far from being very rapid – they have even been observed occasionally to pause in their course, but they are not the less destructive for all that. A ball of lightning which entered the church of Stralsund, on exploding, projected a number of balls which exploded in their turn like shells.
452:...noticed, with what I can only describe as calm amazement, that a dazzling globe of electric fire, apparently between six and twelve inches in diameter, was stationary about six inches below and to the right of my right knee. As I looked at it, it exploded with a sharp report quite impossible to confuse with the continuous turmoil of the lightning, thunder and hail, or that of the lashed water and smashed wood which was creating a pandemonium outside the cottage. I felt a very slight shock in the middle of my right hand, which was closer to the globe than any other part of my body.
790:. Generally, the experiments are conducted by placing a lit or recently extinguished match or other small object in a microwave oven. The burnt portion of the object flares up into a large ball of fire, while "plasma balls" float near the oven chamber ceiling. Some experiments describe covering the match with an inverted glass jar, which contains both the flame and the balls so that they do not damage the chamber walls. (A glass jar, however, eventually explodes rather than simply causing charred paint or melting metal, as happens to the inside of a microwave.) Experiments by
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approaches. It was found that the most intense plasma oscillations occur in the central regions of a ball lightning. It is suggested that bound states of radially oscillating charged particles with oppositely oriented spins – the analogue of Cooper pairs – can appear inside a ball lightning. This phenomenon, in its turn, can lead to a superconducting phase in a ball lightning. The idea of the superconductivity in a ball lightning was considered earlier. The possibility of the existence of a ball lightning with a composite core was also discussed in this model.
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more than one set of weather and electrically charged conditions, the scientific rationale for which is incomplete or not fully understood. One suggestion is that meteoroids breaking up in the atmosphere and forming charged plasmas as opposed to burning completely or impacting as meteorites could explain some instances of the phenomena, in addition to other unknown atmospheric events. However, according to
Stenhoff, this explanation is considered insufficient to explain the ball lightning phenomenon, and would likely not withstand peer review.
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plasma membrane. These oscillations are sustained by parametric amplification, resulting from regular "inhalation" of charged particles that are present at lower densities in the ambient air. Ball lightning vanishes thus by silent extinction when the available density of charged particles is too low, while it disappears with a loud and sometimes very violent explosion when this density is too high. Electronic oscillations are also possible as stationary waves in a plasma ball or thick plasma membrane. This yields concentric luminous bubbles.
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887:. An experimental investigation of this effect, published in 2007, reported producing "luminous balls with lifetime in the order of seconds" by evaporating pure silicon with an electric arc. Videos and spectrographs of this experiment have been made available. This hypothesis got significant supportive data in 2014, when the first ever recorded spectra of natural ball lightning were published. The theorized forms of silicon storage in soil include nanoparticles of Si,
670:. At a distance of 900 m (3,000 ft), a total of 1.64 seconds of digital video of the ball lightning and its spectrum was made, from the formation of the ball lightning after the ordinary lightning struck the ground, up to the optical decay of the phenomenon. Additional video was recorded by a high-speed (3000 frames/sec) camera, which captured only the last 0.78 seconds of the event, due to its limited recording capacity. Both cameras were equipped with
233:, Devon, in England, on 21 October 1638. Four people died and approximately 60 suffered injuries during a severe storm. Witnesses described an 8-foot (2.4 m) ball of fire striking and entering the church, nearly destroying it. Large stones from the church walls were hurled onto the ground and through large wooden beams. The ball of fire allegedly smashed the pews and many windows, and filled the church with a foul sulphurous odour and dark, thick smoke.
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957:, and James R. Powell proposed that ball lightning is a detached St. Elmo's fire (1964–1970). St. Elmo's fire arises when a sharp conductor, such as a ship's mast, amplifies the atmospheric electric field to breakdown. For a globe the amplification factor is 3. A free ball of ionized air can amplify the ambient field this much by its own conductivity. When this maintains the ionization, the ball is then a
539:, balls of fire played tag for half an hour, to the wonder and amazement of all who saw the display. In this building is situated the dynamos and electrical apparatus of perhaps the finest electrical plant of its size in the state. There was probably a visiting delegation from the clouds, to the captives of the dynamos on last Monday night, and they certainly had a fine visit and a roystering game of romp.
572:, Germany. On 29 April 1925 multiple witnesses saw a silent ball land near a mailman, move along a telephone wire to a school, knock back a teacher using a telephone, and bore perfectly round coin-sized holes through a glass pane. 210 m (700 feet) of wire was melted, several telephone poles were damaged, an underground cable was broken, and several workmen were thrown to the ground but unhurt.
579:. The books are considered historical fiction, but the author always insisted they were descriptive of actual events in her life. In Wilder's description, three separate balls of lightning appear during a winter blizzard near a cast-iron stove in the family's kitchen. They are described as appearing near the stovepipe, then rolling across the floor, only to disappear as the mother (
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78:. An optical spectrum of what appears to have been a ball lightning event was published in January 2014 and included a video at high frame rate. Nevertheless, scientific data on ball lightning remain scarce. Although laboratory experiments have produced effects that are visually similar to reports of ball lightning, how these relate to the supposed phenomenon remains unclear.
422:, there was a long clap of thunder, louder than before, and I suddenly saw a fiery ball flying from the window straight towards the head of the Emperor. The ball (it was of lightning) whirled around the floor, then passed the chandelier and flew out through the door into the park. My heart froze, I glanced at my grandfather – his face was completely calm. He
602:, Sweden, leaving a circular hole about 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter. The hole in the window was found days later, and it was thought it could have happened during the thunderstorm; a lightning strike was witnessed by residents in the area, and was recorded by a lightning strike tracking system at the Division for Electricity and Lightning Research at
335:. The crew watched one ball descend, killing a man on deck and setting the main mast on fire. A crewman went out to retrieve the fallen body and was struck by a second ball, which knocked him back and left him with mild burns. A third man was killed by contact with the third ball. Crew members reported a persistent, sickening sulphur smell afterward.
418:. During the service there was a powerful thunderstorm, streaks of lightning flashed one after the other, and it seemed as if the peals of thunder would shake even the church and the whole world to its foundations. Suddenly it became quite dark, a blast of wind from the open door blew out the flame of the candles which were lit in front of the
698:—in contrast with mainly ionized nitrogen emission lines in the spectrum of the parent lightning. The ball lightning traveled horizontally across the video frame at an average speed equivalent of 8.6 m/s (28 ft/s). It had a diameter of 5 m (16 ft) and covered a distance of about 15 m (49 ft) within those 1.64 s.
192:, an English monk, contains what is possibly the earliest known reference to ball lightning, dated 7 June 1195. He states, "A marvellous sign descended near London", consisting of a dense and dark cloud, emitting a white substance that grew into a spherical shape under the cloud, from which a fiery globe fell towards the river.
883:. Lightning striking Earth's soil could vaporize the silica contained within it, and somehow separate the oxygen from the silicon dioxide, turning it into pure silicon vapor. As it cools, the silicon could condense into a floating aerosol, bound by its charge, glowing due to the heat of silicon recombining with
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March 19, 1963). Some seconds after this a glowing sphere a little more than 20 cm in diameter emerged from the pilot's cabin and passed down the aisle of the aircraft approximately 50 cm from me, maintaining the same height and course for the whole distance over which it could be observed.
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A more down-to-earth theory, proposed by John
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Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, proposed that the bright glow of lightning balls is created when microwaves become trapped inside a plasma bubble. At the tip of a lightning stroke reaching the ground, a relativistic electron bunch can be produced when in contact with
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In this model ball lightning is assumed to have a solid, positively charged core. According to this underlying assumption, the core is surrounded by a thin electron layer with a charge nearly equal in magnitude to that of the core. A vacuum exists between the core and the electron layer containing an
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On June 24, 2022, in a massive thunderstorm front, a retired lady at
Liebenberg, Lower Austria, saw blinding cloud-to-ground lightning to the northeast and within 1 min spotted a yellowish "burning object with licking flames" that followed a wavy trajectory along the local road about 15 m over ground
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Russian Empire (now Oral, Kazakhstan), "a dazzlingly brilliant ball of fire" descended gradually from the sky during a thunderstorm, then entered into a house where 21 people had taken refuge, "wreaked havoc with the apartment, broke through the wall into a stove in the adjoining room, smashed
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in the Duchy of Anhalt it appeared green. M. Colon, Vice-President of the
Geological Society of Paris, saw a ball of lightning descend slowly from the sky along the bark of a poplar tree; as soon as it touched the earth it bounced up again, and disappeared without exploding. On 10th of September 1845
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Holmlid. It is similar to a liquid or solid state of matter with extremely low (gas-like) density. Lumps of atmospheric Rydberg matter can result from condensation of highly excited atoms that form by atmospheric electrical phenomena, mainly from
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are similar to the observed features of ball lightning. The study also showed that the rapidly changing magnetic field of a close lightning flash is strong enough to excite the neurons in the brain. This strengthens the possibility of lightning-induced seizure in the occipital lobe of a person close
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Submariners in World War II gave the most frequent and consistent accounts of small ball lightning in the confined submarine atmosphere. There are repeated accounts of inadvertent production of floating explosive balls when the battery banks were switched in or out, especially if misswitched or when
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formations similar to ball lightning are formed by novel physical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena, and that these charged plasmas are capable of being transported at enormous speeds under the influence and balance of electrical charges in the atmosphere. These plasmas appear to originate due to
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in the vicinity, were observed. From the spectrum, the temperature of the ball lightning was assessed as being lower than the temperature of the parent lightning (<15,000 to 30,000 K). The observed data are consistent with vaporization of soil as well as with ball lightning's sensitivity to
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himself just as calmly as he had when the fiery ball had flown near us, and I felt that it was unseemly and not courageous to be frightened as I was. I felt that one had only to look at what was happening and believe in the mercy of God, as he, my grandfather, did. After the ball had passed through
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when he heard thunder and ran home with his engraver to capture the event for posterity. While the experiment was under way, ball lightning appeared, travelled down the string, struck
Richmann's forehead and killed him. The ball had left a red spot on Richmann's forehead, his shoes were blown open,
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The ball of fire reportedly divided into two segments, one exiting through a window by smashing it open, the other disappearing somewhere inside the church. Because of the fire and sulphur smell, contemporaries explained the ball of fire as "the devil" or as the "flames of hell". Later, some blamed
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researchers suggest that the magnetic fields involved in certain types of lightning strikes could potentially induce visual hallucinations resembling ball lightning. Such fields, which are found within close distances to a point in which multiple lightning strikes have occurred over a few seconds,
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H. C. Wu proposed (2016) that ball lightning arises when a "relativistic electron bunch" forming at the tip of a lightning stroke excites "intense microwave radiation" under certain conditions. As the microwaves ionize the surrounding air, their associated pressure may then evacuate the resulting
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The soliton model of a ball lightning was further developed. It was suggested that a ball lightning is based on spherically symmetric nonlinear oscillations of charged particles in plasma – the analogue of a spatial
Langmuir soliton. These oscillations were described in both classical and quantum
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Powell's kinetic theory calculation found that the ball size is set by the second
Townsend coefficient (the mean free path of conduction electrons) near breakdown. Wandering glow discharges are found to occur within certain industrial microwave ovens and continue to glow for several seconds after
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I was seated near the front of the passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA 539) on a late night flight from New York to Washington. The aircraft encountered an electrical storm during which it was enveloped in a sudden bright and loud electrical discharge (0005 h EST,
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A. Meessen presented a theory at the 10th International Symposium on Ball Lightning (June 21–27, 2010, Kaliningrad, Russia) explaining all known properties of ball lightning in terms of collective oscillations of free electrons. The simplest case corresponds to radial oscillations in a spherical
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as an explanation of ball lightning phenomena. Rydberg matter is a condensed form of highly excited atoms in many aspects similar to electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. However, in contrast to electron-hole droplets, Rydberg matter has an extended life-time—as long as hours. This condensed
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proposed that ball lightning is a glow discharge driven by microwave radiation that is guided to the ball along lines of ionized air from lightning clouds where it is produced. The ball serves as a resonant microwave cavity, automatically adjusting its radius to the wavelength of the microwave
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in the Czech Republic. The ball bounced from window to ceiling, then to the floor and back, where it rolled along it for two or three meters. It then dropped to the floor and disappeared. The staff present in the control room were frightened, smelled electricity and burned cables and thought
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reportedly could artificially produce 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) balls and conducted some demonstrations of his ability. Tesla was more interested in higher voltages and powers as well as remote transmission of power; the balls he made were just a curiosity.
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Scientists have long attempted to produce ball lightning in laboratory experiments. While some experiments have produced effects that are visually similar to reports of natural ball lightning, it has not yet been determined whether there is any relation.
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something was burning. The computers froze (not crashed) and all communications equipment was knocked out for the night until restored by technicians. Aside from damages caused by disrupting equipment, only one computer monitor was destroyed.
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Pilots in World War II (1939–1945) described an unusual phenomenon for which ball lightning has been suggested as an explanation. The pilots saw small balls of light moving in strange trajectories, which came to be referred to as
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Ohtsuki and Ofuruton described producing "plasma fireballs" by microwave interference within an air-filled cylindrical cavity fed by a rectangular waveguide using a 2.45 GHz, 5 kW (maximum power) microwave oscillator.
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the whole church, and suddenly gone out through the door, I again looked at my grandfather. A faint smile was on his face, and he nodded his head at me. My panic disappeared, and from that time I had no more fear of storms.
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The International Committee on Ball Lightning (ICBL) held regular symposia on the subject. A related group uses the generic name "Unconventional Plasmas". The last ICBL symposium was tentatively scheduled for July 2012 in
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There is at present no widely accepted explanation for ball lightning. Several hypotheses have been advanced since the phenomenon was brought into the scientific realm by the English physician and electrical researcher
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A beautiful yet strange phenomenon was seen in this city on last Monday night. The wind was high and the air seemed to be full of electricity. In front of, above and around the new Hall of Engineering of the
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ions, which are long-lived at low temperatures. It occurred in air and in nitrous oxide, which possess such metastable ions, and not in atmospheres of argon, carbon dioxide, or helium, which do not.
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Leyden jar models. Stanley Singer discussed (1971) this type of hypothesis and suggested that the electrical recombination time would be too short for the ball lightning lifetimes often reported.
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the highly inductive electrical motors were misconnected or disconnected. An attempt later to duplicate those balls with a surplus submarine battery resulted in several failures and an explosion.
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Meshcheryakov, Oleg (1 August 2010). "How and why electrostatic charge of combustible nanoparticles can radically change the mechanism and rate of their oxidation in humid atmosphere".
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drawn from high-power low-voltage microwave generators also are found to exhibit afterglow. Powell measured their spectra, and found that the after-glow comes mostly from metastable
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moving through solid masses of wood or metal without effect, while others describe it as destructive and melting or burning those substances. Its appearance has also been linked to
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the stove-pipe, and carried it off with such violence that it was dashed against the opposite wall, and went out through the broken window". The incident was reported in the
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Holmlid, L. (2007). "Direct observation of circular Rydberg electrons in a Rydberg matter surface layer by electronic circular dichroism".
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Norman, G. É. (2001). "Rydberg matter as a metastable state of strongly nonideal plasma".
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model that explains all the observable properties and processes of ball lightning.
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Youichi Sakawa; Kazuyoshi Sugiyama; Tetsuo Tanabe; Richard More (January 2006).
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in the vapors. The visual effect can be described as small glowing, sparkling
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The emission spectrum (intensity vs. wavelength) of a natural ball lightning
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Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning: Extreme Forms of Atmospheric Electricity
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Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning: Extreme Forms of Atmospheric Electricity
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This hypothesis suggests that ball lightning consists of vaporized silicon
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Physicist Emeritus Professor Brian Tanner and historian Giles Gasper of
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4677:"A Unified Theory of Ball Lightning and Unexplained Atmospheric Lights"
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Several other hypotheses have been proposed to explain ball lightning:
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Ball Lightning: A Collection of Soviet Research in English Translation
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to a lightning strike, establishing the connection between epileptic
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a ball of lightning entered the kitchen of a house in the village of
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3219:(1955). "The Nature of Ball Lightning". In Donald J. Ritchie (ed.).
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wrote that there had been about 150 reports of globular lightning:
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Endean, V. G. (1976). "Ball lightning as electromagnetic energy".
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Muldrew, D. B. (1990). "The Physical Nature of Ball Lightning".
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Anon (24 December 1726). "Foreign Affairs: London 24 December".
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2434:(17 January 2014). "Focus: First Spectrum of Ball Lightning".
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Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
1507:"The 'Skyrmion' May Have Solved the Mystery of Ball Lightning"
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4724:. UPIAR, Turin, Italy (2023), pp. 77-93. ISBN 9791281441002.
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On the nature of thunderstorms (originally published in 1843)
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to produce small rising glowing balls, often referred to as
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A 1753 report recounts lethal ball lightning when professor
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They are generally spherical or pear-shaped with fuzzy edges
4552:"Ball Lightning: Bubbles of Electronic Plasma Oscillations"
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1288:"Ball lightning: weird, mysterious, perplexing, and deadly"
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Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics
4718:" in Ballester-Olmos, V.J. and Heiden, Richard W. (Eds.),
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Ball lightning is all in the mind, say Austrian physicists
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plasma to form a bubble that "stably traps the radiation".
368:, translated into English in 1875, French science-writer
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3254:"Development of the maser-caviton ball lightning theory"
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but was cancelled due to a lack of submitted abstracts.
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Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
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Contemporary woodcut of the Widecombe-in-the-Moor storm
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A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar
1820:"Is this England's earliest report of ball lightning?"
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that roll around a surface. Two Brazilian scientists,
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Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
3715:"Pairing of charged particles in a quantum plasmoid"
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4734:Ball Lightning Explanation Leading to Clean Energy
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3719:Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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2998:"Natural ball lightning probed for the first time"
2971:"Index of /Epaps/Phys_rev_lett/E-PRLTAO-98-047705"
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1459:"Natural ball lightning probed for the first time"
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102:Ball lightning is often erroneously identified as
54:is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as
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3297:"Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning"
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2061:in New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire's
1790:(Paper J-15 ed.). Gatlinburg. pp. 1–25.
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762:A demonstration of the water discharge experiment
508:On 30 April 1877 a ball of lightning entered the
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3252:Handel, Peter H.; Jean-François Leitner (1994).
3097:"The dirty secret behind ball lightning is dirt"
1904:"Weather Eye: Charles Darwin, the meteorologist"
4716:Investigating Ball Lightning Eyewitness Reports
2659:"'Ball lightning' created in German laboratory"
2506:Nikola Tesla – Colorado Springs Notes 1899–1900
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2300:"Ball lightning – and the charge sheath vortex"
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1996:. Translated by Phipson, T. L. pp. 32–39.
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461:Jennison, of the Electronics Laboratory at the
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1837:Anon. "Foreign Affairs: Bristol 17 December".
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489:Ball lightning entering via the chimney (1886)
138:Many are described as having rotational motion
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642:Direct measurements of natural ball lightning
4638:Cade, Cecil Maxwell; Delphine Davis (1969).
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410:Once my parents were away, and I was at the
106:. They are separate and distinct phenomena.
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4090:The open access atmospheric science journal
3821:"Superconductivity of plasma and fireballs"
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2469:Chauncy Montgomery M'Govern (May 1899).
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782:Many modern experiments involve using a
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899:Electrically charged solid-core model
546:On 22 May 1901 in the Kazakh city of
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4367:Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
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2949:"Lightning balls created in the lab"
2782:"Universidade Federal de Pernambuco"
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2327:"Ett fenomen som gäckar vetenskapen"
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710:high-voltage power transmission line
561:In July 1907 ball lightning hit the
66:, and is a phenomenon distinct from
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1734:Charman, Neil (14 December 1972).
1567:
798:with an average radius of 25
568:Ley discussed another incident in
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47:A 1901 depiction of ball lightning
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3396:. Vol. 5. pp. 197–212.
2788:from the original on 21 June 2009
2736:from the original on 26 June 2009
2325:Larsson, Anders (23 April 2002).
2225:"The Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse"
2039:from the original on 17 June 2009
1994:Thunder and lightning (full text)
1901:Simons, Paul (17 February 2009).
1354:The General Repository and Review
1286:Nunez, Christina (6 March 2019).
1056:transcranial magnetic stimulation
1034:Transcranial magnetic stimulation
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2349:"Lightning strike wrecked my TV"
2329:(in Swedish). Uppsala University
2282:"Playing with (St. Elmo's) fire"
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1963:Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1864).
1836:
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1379:Trimarchi, Maria (7 July 2008).
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836:Federal University of Pernambuco
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286:Admiral Chambers on board the
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2665:. 7 June 2006. Archived from
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225:One early account reports on
173:from Argentinean and Chilean
34:. For the Chinese novel, see
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4453:The Nature of Ball Lightning
4198:, The Register, 19 May 2010.
4092:, vol. 2, pp. 101–105 (2008)
4088:, Cooray, G. and V. Cooray,
3948:Meshcheryakov, Oleg (2007).
3116:Geophysical Research Letters
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1256:Spontaneous human combustion
871:Vaporized silicon hypothesis
842:vaporized silicon hypothesis
346:, in his 1864 US edition of
259:As we were coming thro' the
7:
5053:Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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3892:10.1016/j.jastp.2012.08.005
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674:. The researchers detected
656:Northwest Normal University
563:Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse
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1141:Smirnov proposed (1987) a
1054:More recent research with
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4455:. New York: Plenum Press.
4344:10.1134/S0021364010210125
3975:10.1007/s11671-007-9068-2
3838:10.1007/s10958-008-9047-x
3713:Dvornikov, Maxim (2013).
3562:10.1017/S002237781100016X
3532:Journal of Plasma Physics
3470:Dvornikov, Maxim (2010).
3176:10.5194/angeo-28-223-2010
1803:Science of Ball Lightning
1553:10.1134/S0021364010210125
1017:Buoyant plasma hypothesis
499:French Academy of Science
110:from lethal to harmless.
5131:Atmospheric ghost lights
4795:. Cambridge: MIT Press.
4770:Uman, Martin A. (1984).
4451:Singer, Stanley (1971).
3195:О природе шаровой молнии
3194:
2996:Slezak, Michael (2014).
2842:National Geographic News
2105:Jennison, R. C. (1969).
2057:There is no present-day
1876:. Random House. p.
1652:. For Your Information.
1596:: CS1 maint: location (
1326:. Exeter: James G Commin
1216:Atmospheric ghost lights
30:For the Czech film, see
4853:Atmospheric electricity
4751:Stenhoff, Mark (1999).
4238:Proceedings of the SPIE
4084:16 October 2013 at the
3819:Zelikin, M. I. (2008).
3295:Wu, H. C. (June 2019).
3149:Muldrew, D. B. (2010).
3136:10.1029/GL017i012p02277
1415:Physical Review Letters
1128:vector spinning in the
1070:can directly cause the
1067:University of Innsbruck
995:Hill's spherical vortex
414:with my grandfather in
5033:Georg Wilhelm Richmann
5012:Electrodynamic tethers
4897:Earth's magnetic field
4776:. Dover Publications.
4732:Seward, Clint (2011).
4589:Cite journal requires
3681:10.1098/rspa.2011.0276
2504:Tesla, Nikola (1978).
1654:Galaxy Science Fiction
1086:Rydberg matter concept
1078:to fire, resulting in
1001:Nanobattery hypothesis
763:
745:Wave-guided microwaves
721:Laboratory experiments
672:slitless spectrographs
651:
541:
490:
478:
454:
429:
392:
344:Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
339:Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
294:
272:
227:the Great Thunderstorm
222:
210:
48:
36:Ball Lightning (novel)
5126:Unexplained phenomena
4996:Equatorial electrojet
4892:Atmospheric chemistry
4706:Golde, R. H. (1977).
4687:Golde, R. H. (1977).
4675:Coleman, P. F. 2006,
4469:, (Review Section of
4215:MIT Technology Review
4028:disclosureproject.org
3199:Докл. Акад. наук СССР
2889:Meteorological Essays
2391:"The Aviation Herald"
2251:Wilder, Laura Ingalls
2210:Mark Stenhoff (1999)
2155:"Miracle saved panth"
1221:Brown Mountain Lights
761:
649:
620:On 15 December 2014,
532:
488:
473:
450:
408:
374:
366:Thunder and Lightning
284:
257:
231:Widecombe-in-the-Moor
220:
201:
190:Gervase of Canterbury
184:Gervase of Canterbury
46:
32:Ball Lightning (film)
4882:Atmospheric dynamics
4714:Keul, Alexander G. "
4550:Meessen, A. (2012).
4240:. SPIE Proceedings.
2848:on 10 February 2007.
1711:Barry, J.D. (1980a)
1320:J. B R, ed. (1905).
774:in a tank of water.
768:Max Planck Institute
622:Loganair Flight 6780
577:Laura Ingalls Wilder
370:Wilfrid de Fonvielle
360:Wilfrid de Fonvielle
5116:Terrestrial plasmas
4877:Atmospheric physics
4872:Atmospheric science
4511:2016NatSR...628263W
4422:1976Natur.263..753E
4379:2007JPCM...19A6206H
4336:2010JETPL..92..630M
4293:2001JETPL..73...10N
4250:2006SPIE.6181E..05M
4244:: 618105–618105–9.
4171:2010PhLA..374.4797P
4129:2010PhLA..374.2932P
3966:2007NRL.....2..319M
3954:Nanoscale Res. Lett
3927:1993Wthr...48...27.
3884:2012JASTP..89...62D
3787:1980Natur.284..150D
3741:2013JPhA...46d5501D
3673:2012RSPSA.468..415D
3615:2005PhLA..336...46D
3554:2011JPlPh..77..749D
3498:2010PhyS...81e5502D
3412:2003physics...6157D
3323:2016NatSR...628263W
3270:1994JGR....9910689H
3167:2010AnGeo..28..223M
3155:Annales Geophysicae
3128:1990GeoRL..17.2277M
3058:2000Natur.403..519A
3016:2014NewSc.221...17S
2955:. 10 January 2007.
2919:2007PhRvL..98d8501P
2814:on 20 December 2008
2706:2006PFR.....1...39S
2635:1991Natur.353..868O
2588:1991Natur.350..139O
2456:10.1103/Physics.7.5
2448:2014PhyOJ...7....5B
2178:, 24 November 1894.
2123:1969Natur.224..895J
1841:. 24 December 1726.
1766:Scientific American
1688:Barry, James Dale:
1618:on 22 December 2008
1545:2010JETPL..92..630M
1477:2014NewSc.221...17S
1428:2014PhRvL.112c5001C
1298:on 17 February 2021
965:power is shut off.
910:ponderomotive force
857:William Snow Harris
810:Silicon experiments
558:the following year.
527:newspaper reported:
332:HMS Warren Hastings
315:Academy of Sciences
165:Historical accounts
4920:Radio atmospherics
4887:Atmospheric dynamo
4793:The Lightning Book
4489:Scientific Reports
4483:Wu, H.-C. (2016).
3428:on 8 December 2015
3301:Scientific Reports
2977:on 7 November 2018
2476:Pearson's Magazine
1826:. 27 January 2022.
1261:Sprite (lightning)
1120:Spinning electric
1040:epileptic seizures
953:Julio Rubinstein,
939:Soliton hypothesis
764:
678:of neutral atomic
652:
604:Uppsala University
491:
463:University of Kent
436:British occultist
253:Catherine and Mary
243:Catherine and Mary
223:
49:
5106:Anomalous weather
5093:
5092:
4974:
4973:
4944:Optical emissions
4913:ELF/VLF emissions
4802:978-0-262-22017-0
4783:978-0-486-25237-7
4762:978-0-306-46150-7
4743:978-1-4583-7373-1
4710:. Academic Press.
4698:978-0-12-287802-2
4668:978-1-4116-1276-1
4649:978-0-200-71531-7
4623:978-0-306-40272-2
4519:10.1038/srep28263
4416:(5580): 753–755.
4301:10.1134/1.1355396
4258:10.1117/12.675004
4165:(47): 4797–4799.
4159:Physics Letters A
4113:(29): 2932–2935.
4107:Physics Letters A
4041:on 22 April 2017.
3781:(5752): 150–151.
3657:(2138): 415–428.
3593:Physics Letters A
3421:978-1-59033-928-2
3331:10.1038/srep28263
3278:10.1029/93JD01021
3217:Kapitsa, Peter L.
3122:(12): 2277–2280.
2891:by, Longman, 1855
2874:978-0-554-87861-4
2715:10.1585/pfr.1.039
2582:(6314): 139–141.
2514:978-0-913022-26-9
2483:on 6 October 2008
2266:978-0-06-440005-3
2259:. Harper Trophy.
2090:978-0-14-019189-9
2019:The Leeds Mercury
2003:978-1-142-61255-9
1887:978-1-84212-272-3
1868:Clarke, Ronald W.
1762:"Ask the experts"
1656:. pp. 56–71.
1385:HowStuffWorks.com
1159:superconductivity
1132:frequency region.
1104:Vacuum hypothesis
1080:magnetophosphenes
1060:magnetophosphenes
1021:The declassified
955:David Finkelstein
739:San Marcos, Texas
386:in the valley of
311:Benjamin Franklin
197:Durham University
188:The chronicle of
156:Odors resembling
16:(Redirected from
5138:
5081:
5080:
5069:
5068:
5017:Magnetotellurics
4986:Solar irradiance
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4906:Electromagnetism
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4568:on 17 April 2019
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2107:"Ball Lightning"
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1940:. Archived from
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1283:
1266:Will-o'-the-wisp
1226:Earthquake light
1211:Antimatter comet
1204:
1199:
1198:
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1185:
1184:
1112:Other hypotheses
805:
627:Aberdeen Airport
581:Caroline Ingalls
521:Golden, Colorado
438:Aleister Crowley
432:Aleister Crowley
395:Tsar Nicholas II
307:Saint Petersburg
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4086:Wayback Machine
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943:Main articles:
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