Re: Ball Lightning

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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:
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>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
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