Ball Lightning from high-amp discharge

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>



Remember the discussion of Robert Golka's "ball lightning" created by
shorting out a large battery bank over a pan of water?  And my suspicion
that it might be no illusion, that those glowing balls *really did* start
out large, then shrink over time?  Well, Golka should have submitted it to
PRL, because now some physicists think the same, and they'll get all the
credit:

  http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325863.500&feedId=online-news_rss20

  Youtube version of their video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVDU-6opEqA


But if anyone here has an appropriate supply, there's still something they
can explore:  striking those balls with a TC discharge.   Corum and Corum
noted that the small BLs that they created with two mis-tuned TCs would
grow much larger after being hit with a streamer.




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