Re: Holy Crap!

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Original poster: "J. Aaron Holmes" <jaholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If it's the Real Thing, it'll soon be reproduced and
all over the place.  I still find the lack of shadows
and reflections on the table pretty disturbing,
though...

I should add that I'm perfectly willing to believe in
plasma phenomena like this, having seen (with my own
eyeballs) similar things done in microwave ovens.  My
skepticism here is directed entirely at the legitimacy
of the "photo".  I just had a knee-jerk "hoax"
reaction when I looked at it :-))

Regards,
Aaron, N7OE

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

> Original poster: Jan Wagner <jwagner@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Tesla list wrote:
> >Original poster: mercurus2000
> <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >Silly subject line but worth it, slightly off
> topic, but I think
> >everyone here is gonna want to see this.
> >http://www.physorg.com/news68812957.html
>
> Neat!
>
> There's also a German article with a short setup
> diagram at
>
>
http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_pi.html
> and a short ~2MB video of the bang at
>
>
http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_kugelblitz.mpg
>
> Pity that it is not a "contained" plasma ball, more
> like a plasma
> "smoke ring". Interesting though that the plasma is
> greenish. Maybe
> due to ionized natrium / chlorine from the salt
> water. Wonder if
> other salts would result in other colours :-)
>
> The German site's diagram shows a 5 kV DC supply and
> 500uF capacitor
> bank, that's a few kJ, and more like can crusher
> than tesla coil.
>
> cheers,
>   - Jan
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