RE: Plasmoid (Ball Lightening) with a microwave resonator

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Original poster: "Jim DeLillo by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimdel-at-bellatlantic-dot-net>

This was just demonstrated by a kid on The Letterman Show.
It looks easily reproducible.
The resultant plasmoid was quite long lived.
It appeared to stay even after the microwave oven was turned off.
Quite Cool!

<< Jim >>

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Subject: Plasmoid (Ball Lightening) with a microwave resonator


Original poster: "Harvey Norris by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Apparently J Naudin of France, (an emminent
experimentalist with many web pages) has been able to
use  pencil lead, (graphite) to produce a stable
plasmoid, ( Ball Lightening?).  He uses  a microwave
and the standard Tesla coil quarterwavelength method
to achieve this. At
http://jlnlabs.imars-dot-com/plasma/gmr/index.htm
he notes the following;
The frequency of the magnetron is 2.45 GHz, its wave
length is l = 12.2 cm, this gives the height of the
1/4 wave microwave antenna : l/4 = 3 cm

This looks like a easily reproducible experiment if
the materials were available.(pyrex glass globe might
be a problem) The page is nicely done.
HDN