Re: Ball lightning Model (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:20:38 -0400
From: mercurus2000 <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Ball lightning Model (fwd)

This I think doesn't explain ball lightning that goes thro windows or 
gets sucked into one side of a power line and pops out the other the 
side. Unless I misread the explaination. But it does seem plausable for 
some forms of ball lightning.
Adam
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> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:54:44 -0600
> From: S&JY <youngs@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Ball lightning Model
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> This link is to a paper that proposes an explanation of ball lightning. 
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>  <http://www.springerlink.com/content/501k0653122j172u/fulltext.pdf>
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/501k0653122j172u/fulltext.pdf       
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> Here is the abstract: 
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> "Despite numerous attempts, an adequate theoretical 
> and experimental simulation of ball lightning still 
> remains incomplete. According to the model proposed here, 
> the processes of electrochemical oxidation within separate 
> aerosol particles are the basis for this phenomenon, and ball 
> lightning is a cloud of composite nano or submicron particles, 
> where each particle is a spontaneously formed nanobattery 
> which is short-circuited by the surface discharge 
> because it is of such a small size. As free discharge-shorted 
> current loops, aerosol nanobatteries are exposed to a powerful 
> mutual magnetic dipole-dipole attraction. The gaseous 
> products and thermal energy produced by each 
> nanobattery as a result of the intra-particle self-sustaining 
> electrochemical reactions, cause a mutual repulsion of these 
> particles over short distances and prevent their aggregation, 
> while a collectivization of the current loops of separate 
> particles, due to the electric arc overlapping between adjacent 
> particles, weakens their mutual magnetic attraction 
> over short distances. Discharge currents in the range of 
> several amperes to several thousand amperes as well as the 
> pre-explosive mega ampere currents, generated in the 
> reduction-oxidation reactions and distributed between all 
> the aerosol particles, explain both the magnetic attraction 
> between the elements of the ball lightning substance and the 
> impressive electromagnetic effects of ball lightning." 
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> Perhaps this paper may give some of you a clue regarding how to perform some
> experiments with a large Tesla Coil or Marx Generator to generate ball
> lightning at will.  I would be interested in your opinions regarding the
> validity of the proposed model for ball lightning.
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> Steve Y.
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