Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here. . . .

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Gary Peterson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <glpeterson-at-tfcbooks-dot-com>
> 
> > Just wondering if anyone on this group has (or knows) anyone who has
> > successfully reproduced Tesla's and Corum's experiments regarding the
> > generation of ball lightning.  If so, I'd be interested in learning about
> > the theory regarding this.
> 
> You've probably read the following account by J.J. O'Neil:
> 
> "Tesla became familiar with the destructive characteristics of fireballs in
> his [frequency division multiplexing] experiments at Colorado Springs in
> 1899. . . . He studied the process by which they were produced, not because
> he wanted to produce them but in order to eliminate the conditions in which
> they were created. . . .
> 
> "Parasitic oscillations, or circuits, within the main circuit were a source
> of danger. . . . Points of resistance in the main circuits could result in
> minor oscillating circuits between terminals or between two points of
> resistance and these minor circuits would have a very much higher period of
> oscillation than the main circuit and could be set into oscillation by the
> main current of lower frequency.
> 
> "Even when the principle oscillating circuit was adjusted for the greatest
> efficiency of operation by the diminution of all sources of losses the
> fireballs continued to occur but these were due to stray high frequency
> charges from random earth currents.
> 
> "From these experiences it became apparent that the fireballs resulted from
> the interaction of two frequencies, a stray higher frequency wave imposed on
> the lower frequency free oscillations of the main circuit.
> 
> "As the free oscillation of the main circuit builds up from the zero point
> to the quarter wave length node it passes through various rates of change.
> In a current of shorter wavelength the rates of change will be steeper. When
> the two currents react on each other the resultant complex will contain a
> wave in which there is an extremely steep rate of change, and for the
> briefest instant currents may move at a tremendous rate, at the rate of
> millions of horsepower.
> 
> "This condition acts as a trigger which may cause the total energy of the
> powerful longer wave to be discharged in an infinitesimally small interval
> of time and at a proportionally tremendously great rate of energy movement
> which cannot confine itself to the metal circuit and is released into
> surrounding space with inconceivable violence."
> 
> The entire text is at www.tfcbooks-dot-com/writings/prevent.htm.  The Corum
> paper as it appeared in the TCBA News Vol. 8, #3 is at
> http://home.dmv-dot-com/~tbastian/ball.htm.  The original paper was published in
> the Russian physics journal Uspekhi, April 1990, pp. 47-58.
> 
> Golka tried the Corum circuit at Climax Mine in 1989 using the "Wheaties"
> coil and a another smaller resonator both within a common welding-cable
> primary.  I believe I saw a few tiny descrete points of light near the
> larger coil's topload, but Bob thought I was hallucinating.  A fellow from
> California by the name of Dave Parrish was there also.
> 
> Gary

	Although some would call it blasphemy, I've always felt that Tesla's
description and explanation of whatever he saw didn't make much sense. 
With the power guys are running now anything he saw should have been
seen again.

Ed