Re: Ball lightning - Terry's thoughts....

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>

Could you simply bypass the door switch, remove the
door and place the microwave on its side? You'd have
to be in a safe location to run this way, but it may
allow a plasma ball to escape. It would be interestig
to see how long it lasts outside the oven.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Tesla list wrote:
>
>  > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > "he argon BLs look like flat-bottom
>  > spheres.  (But perhaps the oven's fan makes a
> difference, since the
>  > argon
>  > BLs were made inside an enclosed space without
> the fan turbulence.)"
>  >
>  > 	How big are they?  Could just be showing the
> shape of the internal
>  > electric field.
>
> About 2" across.  They're closer to spheres than to
> hemispheres, but with
> a definite distortion at the bottom.  They rise
> quickly, at maybe 5" per
> second, so you don't have much time to observe.  And
> much of the time you
> instead get plasma filaments or large gouts of
> flame-like plasma, rather
> than rising ball-shaped discharges.
>
> The pattern of standing waves in the oven doesn't
> seem to have much effect
> on moving plasmas.   It does have a very large
> effect on the triggering of
> plasma outbreaks, and sometimes you need to move
> things around in the oven
> to find a hotspot which causes plasma.
>
>
>
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> William J. Beaty                            SCIENCE