Re: Ball Lightning

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Original poster: "Nebojsa Kovacevic by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <morfeus-at-EUnet.yu>


    * Hello Terry! 


I believe you are right about that. I was thinking the same way, but I was just
wondering, considering what people are talking about ball lightning, if anyone
considered experiments in the area of using two frequency colisions, instead of
carbon particles or something else. I will have to check here at the Museum,
they have published some notes, I have never read before about this. I still
have a copy, but it is not on English. Very, very interesting area of research,
and our luck is that it needs Tesla coils to acchieve this. We have plenty of
those he,he.. 

Regards, 
Nele 

Tesla list wrote: 
>
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net> 
>
> Hi Nele, 
>
> The Corums and Cabbott Sanders worked with a two coil system to try this. 
> Cabbott could not reproduce the fireballs convincingly.  Unfortunately, 
> Tesla's notes on this are sketchy and it is not clear at all what he was 
> doing. 
>
> Tesla states that is Colorado Springs system produced fireballs in the 
> arcs.  I am not sure if he thought these as being just like those found in 
> nature or maybe just similar.  If Tesla could make such fireballs, the 
> methods he used and those for reproducing natural ball lightning will have 
> to be "rediscovered" since there is not enough verifiable information to go 
> on from his known notes.  However, he seems to have been more successful 
> that others in getting "close". 
>
> Cheers, 
>
>         Terry 
>
> At 11:49 AM 1/11/2002 +0100, you wrote: 
> >73 
> >Hello All! 
> > 
> >As for the ball lightning: what about the fact that Tesla mentioned in 
> >his experiments, that he generated sphere lightning using just 
> >discharging of two diferent frequencies, using the high frequency coil 
> >to arc to the low frequency coil, the low frequency coil would then 
> >release it`s energy rapidly, in a burst. He was saying also something 
> >about discharging the two diferent frequency streamers through the 
> >larger pipe, and notice little spheres inside as a product of a 
> >colision. 
> > 
> >"...it became apparent that the fireballs resulted form the interaction 
> >of two frequencies, a stray 
> >                     higher frequency wave imposed on  the lower 
> >frequency oscillations of the main circuit.... 
> > 
> >                    This condition acts as a trigger which may cause the 
> >total energy of the powerful longer wave 
> >                    to be discharged in a infinitesimally small interval 
> >of time and the proportionately tremendously 
> >                    great rate of energy movement which cannot confine 
> >itself to the metal circuit and is released 
> >                    into surrounding space with inconceivable violence. 
> > 
> >                    It is but a step, from the learning how a high 
> >frequency current can explosively discharge a lower 
> >                    frequency current, to using the principle to design 
> >a system in which these explosions can be 
> >                    produced by intent."   -N. Tesla 
> > 
> >But he never really explained how he acchieved the generation of this 
> >phenomenon. 
> > 
> >Regards, 
> >Nele 
> > 
> > 
> >