Ball Lightening

Nice subject OP.
I got interested in ball lightning years ago.
I never saw one my self, sad enough.
My conclusions are:
They are real
Size from a few cm to more than half a meter.
They are interesting because the can generate lots of energy, and stay stable over a longer period of time.
During sudden collapse they can generate extreme strong magnetic fields.
And lots of other goodies, like the production of neutrons.

Now, what are they:
Balls of plasma, made up of ionised material, usually during thunder strike, there or nearby.
The current of the electric discharge made a sharp curve and ionised something, air and/or solid material.
The result was a highly conductive plasma globe, with a strong current running over its surface.
If you could see the current, it would look like a piece of yarn on a knot of wool.
Due to this current and the curved path, it compresses the surface of the plasma ball. This makes it stable.

And now for the very nice part:
Under certain circumstances, depending on the starting energy and the composition at the start of the plasma ball, there starts a friendly form of nuclear fusion. Hence the neutron radiation.
I am convinced this can be easy made into an industrial process of generating energy




Last Edited by Tarpa on 01/06/2011 06:30 PM

A Hungarian research worker has been studying the phenomena for more then thirty years. The phenomena is a 4 dimensional effect partly seen in the 3D.

If you want to know some more drop a mail to him: [email protected]

His books were translated into foreign languages like:
Kugelblitz! Liegt der Schlüssel zu seinem Geheimnis in der vierten Dimension?
CTT-Verlag, Stadelstrasse 16, D-98527 Suhl
(Fordította: Peter Rietz)
ISBN 3-9806077-5-5
( [link to egely.hu]

You were lucky to survive anyway, nor everybody does.

My father used to see ball lightening when he was a child,following the rail tracks and fencing.He said they were beautiful,but eerie.My husband has seen "orbs" of light,here,in this house.Supposedly,they're a different entity,though....

I have seen these as well

I've seen one ball lightning. It was in our living room when I was 16. It hovered right above the telephone. Which we guessed was the attractor. And like the OP said. It hovered for like 30 seconds and then just exploded. Very loud. My brother who was sitting close to it and the telephone was knocked out of his chair. It burnt the outside of the house a bit. But nothing in the living room was hurt. And it was a blueish color.

I had it come from an electrical outlet to about 2' inside of my living room... it exploded like a shotgun, going off directly over the unplugged (it was a storm) from the wall 'surge protector' that my new Sony system was plugged-in to... blew the main board in the (unplugged) amp... that stereo was destined to die.

Maybe it was a Lightning Elemental from the Final Fantasy series? My question is to be taken both as a joke and seriously. Especially considering throughout recorded Human history about Ball Lightning there have been times these Balls possess some sort of intellegence to them...

Anyone ever tell you how cute you are? ;) Anyway,back to subject at hand.Kinda makes me glad I have an old wind-up Victrola! I've lost electronic equipment before during lightening storms and unplug everything now. Pain in the butt, but worth it to save my pc,tv,etc.

Maybe this is what the OP is referring to --> [link to media.ebaumsworld.com]

I've had this happen TOO. i had seen something and when I went to talk about it the next day with the people who were with me that night, they said it didn't happen.
I KNOW it was real.

My Balls light up in the dark after drinking from one of those green rivers, I've tried eating a shit load of Wilting daisies to combat the effects, someone said I should take advice from one of Obamas chief of staff, he recommended I should place some cut onions on plates and sit in a darkened room with them for 24 hours , someone else on here told me the Pinzillas knew about this method three years before the Chief of staff and that they're to blame for me not recovering sooner.

What do you think?