Re: latest - Re: Ball Lightining

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Original poster: "Randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <randy-at-gte-dot-net>

Methinks this thread is about to get canned*, so, hopefully, before it 
does, please see:
http://www.eskimo-dot-com/~billb/tesla/mwball.txt

There has been a certain amount of thought devoted to the "sooty smoke" 
theory being
needed for ball lightning, plasmoids, and such to occur.

YES, "plasmoids" CAN be created in your MW oven. Are they small versions of 
ball lightning?
I dunno. But they sure as heck are fun to watch.

Randy


*Using Tesla coils for things, like trying to make ball lightning, is on
topic. - Terry

At 06:01 PM 1/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><davep-at-quik-dot-com>
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> > If one were to add rain (and the chemicals in it), ozone, dust, dirt, etc.
> > of a rain storm into the mix.  Perhaps one could get a fire ball more like
> > those in nature.
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>         fwiw....
>         IIR Tesla described using rubber insulated wire for the
>         discharge electrode.  IIR (further) Corums tried the
>         same when they got 'fireballs'.  One suspects that
>         'dust and dirt' (rather than rain) as a seed/contaminant
>         MIGHT be helpful.
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>         My understanding is that the Corums thought so.
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>         Ball lighting is largely seen 'near' the earth.
>         (which may be because "we" are there and don't see it
>         elsewhere.
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>         best
>         dwp