Re: Ball Lightning

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Original poster: "Mike Novak by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmnovak-at-msn-dot-com>

Anyone have a link to this article? I've read it a while back, but only
printed a part of it. The original site no longer exhists :-o
Thanks,

-Mike Novak


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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Ball Lightning


> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
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> Tesla list wrote:
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> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>
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> > I once got some interesting effect by placing a candle whose wick
> > had a thin wire in it on top of my 3.5 inch little coil.  Kinda
> > neat to see the streamers issuing from the flame of the candle.
>
> Candle (or any) flame is a low energy plasma.  Conductive.
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> > >    A friend of mine tried putting burning rubber bands (messy) at the
top
> > > terminal and passing a discharge through them.  He got an effect which
> > > looked to him like the sort of ball lightning Tesla reported.  I think
I
> > > have a paper from the Corum's stating much the same thing.
>
> Yep.
> Corums cite Faradays Natural History of a Candle.
> They speculated that Tesla's use of rubber insulated wire
> led to 'seeding' effects, which helped towards Ball Lightning.
> The BL field is still pretty wide open...
>
> best
> dwp
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