Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Ed,
> I agree, What if everyone is lying or incompetent? What is there is a major
> conspiracy? What if we're observing something previously unknown that flies
> in the face of all known physics?
> Baloney!!!!!
> Unless one lives in sub-Saharan Africa, the sound of hoofbeats should make
> one think horses or cattle, not zebras.
>
> Matt D.

	I'm not sure what you're trying to say.  No conspiracy here, no new
physics,  just hot little globs of metal dancing around.  Someone
suggested taking photos at two very different exposure levels and I
think such a carefully controlled test would tell an important story.

Ed


> In a message dated 6/18/05 7:28:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> "But Golka claims that there's a salt-grain-sized metal fragment in the
> center of those 5mm glowing spheres rolling across the water.
>
> Really?  They have a solid core?  I'm suspicious!  What if Golka bases
> his
> claim NOT on evidence (such as shadowgraphs of dark cores in the center
> of
> those spheres.)  What if instead he ASSUMES that the metal grains were
> in
> the spheres.  Maybe they're not.
>
> What if the glowing sphere *is* the metal fragment?  What if our eyes
> aren't fooling us, and the glowing balls really do shrink down and turn
> into solid metal grains?  What if those glowing balls are something
> terribly weird; matter in a quantum state half way between plasma and
> metal: metal with its electron-sea pumped to stunningly high energy, not
> a
> metal at all but an extremely dense plasma of electrons bound to
> positive
> copper ions?"
>
>    If you look at the burn marks those things make as they skip across a
> piece of wood or paper you'll see that there isn't much difference in
> the diameter as the thing cools off.  I'll go for the illusion and
> almost constant diamter.
>
> Ed