ball lightning produced in laboratory

[TheMrSpam]

aperture science, here we go!

[flowmeterdirectory]

keep safe

[Pujc]

idiots...

[fight2legalize]

Ball lightning is man-made, as you can see here. Ball lightning in nature is caused by HAARP.

[rbolo29]

Put a lite cigarette inside an upside down glass to prevent damage to the inside of the microwave oven.

[jigglesnap]

Oh! I've got a great idea!  Why don't you create ball lightning in front of a white background so that it's not visible in the video?

[dandersononutube]

I don't think this is ball lightning. It is tiny balls of burning silicon. Silicon burns very hot (like magnesium) and is light weight. They get lighter and lighter as they burn up, causing them to bounce higher. They also eject material in all directions as they burn. Material ejecting downward pushes them off the counter top.

[teslaandlyne]

From Tesla in his Colorado Springs Notes: heated air/atmosphere/ether expands, creates spherical vacua which expands and contracts. He called them 'fireballs'.

[lb10003]

I saw ball lightning inside a house during a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning nearly hit the house and then three or four giant sparks, about the size of grapefruit, came through a closed window, bounced off the floor and disappeared. Nothing was damaged. It looked very much like what's in the video, but the real thing was MUCH bigger.

[torchigin]

Look at bouncing light ball between 21 and 32 s. You can count about 10 jumps. In the same time it is very easily to calculate that any solid or liquid body must make about 50 jumps in the same time. Thus, it is not welding particles. It is light balls which weight is much smaller. That is why there is no rest after their disappearance. It is clear why they move to the right from viewer on the table in time slot 40-48 s and in perpendicular direction on the floor in time slot 48-56 s.

[torchigin]

Ball lightning dance

I have been amazed by this video. Properties of these objects are perfectly different from that of conventional balls. I am sure that a tail in the word lightning ought to cut and call ball lightning as ball light or light ball or light bubble. There is no plasma. There is an intense white light circulating in a thin spherical shell formed by vapors (see Physical nature of ball lightning. European Physical journal D vol.36, no.5, pp. 319-327)

[seriesioo374]

its called welding slag

[bostonbrew1]

Have you ever heard of the scientific term, "spark"?

[jacebigelow]

LOL... i second that :)

[PhotonMadness]

Of course, ball lightning does not bounce. "Ball of light" is just that, light consisting of photons held together in great numbers in a spherical form.

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[Jemlink]

Photons held together in great numbers? It sounds like you're trying to say that you're condensing light photons, and that is not possible. Even if you had a ball of "pure" light, you wouldn't be able to see it, because none of the light would be released, and so no light would reach your eyes.

But, a plasma, like lightning, can emit several different types of light, even including such energetic forms as gamma rays. You need a light source to have light, that's what I am saying.

[torchigin]

You are perfectly right. Ball Lightning is a ball of light or in other words it is a light bubble. In terms of to-day notions it is an incoherent optical space soliton which curvature is different from zero. Unlike a conventional soap bubble, a shell of the light bubble consists of strongly compressed air there an intense white light is circulating in all possible directions and produce an excess air pressure due to the optical electrostriction effect (see. EPJ D vol.36, no.5, pp. 319-327, 2005)

[Antigoblinius]

that's so fake because the guy doesn't wear any sandals!!!!!!!!!!

[sleepily]

Please shut up bro.

[samoD123]

it's called sparks you div...

[ARVash]

lol. sparks are plasma XD

[First2ner]

What look to me more like melted or almost melted metal

[KAxApollo]

Taldaran and sethwick sound really scientific anyway it looked Kool with a capital K.....allllllllright

[burlearth]

Ball Lightning, my ballls.

[otenyuda]

LOL!

[Taldaran]

In welding we used to call it dingleberries. Hot globules of molten metal which is what this is. Not ball lightning. If it was ball lightning, it would float in the air until it hit something to ground out to. The surrounding air has to be exceedingly dry,so it acts as an insulator to encapsule the high charge of ions.

[Tdog283]

I've done this with my capacitor bank for my coilgun. The stuff disappears after it hits the ground, at least in my lab. Molten metal would normally re-solidify and would thus be visible after it cools down.

[sethwick86]

Ball lightning != plasma. These scientists are working under the theory that ball lightning is simply the result of lightning turning the silica in the soil into clouds of vaporized silicon. Obviously here the effect is much less impressive because they aren't using anything close to what a lightning strike really is. It's hard to equal the power of lightning.

There's an article on newscientist about it called "Lightning balls created in laboratory."

So, not fake, just different.

[styber]

It doesnt hurt the environment, and it isnt floating = it isnt ball lightning. AAAAAAND: what fuckin PLASMA everybody talks about the ball should be made of? nobody knows what the fuck they really ARE, what plasma are u talking about idiots???...

[azraeldrah]

why don't you type 'plasma (physics)' or something similar into wikipedia?

[Sakuzo]

it is bouncing, so it is not plasma

[anticonny]

ofcourse it is!!! but synthetic

[Zarbod]

That's not ball lightning.

[Grundalizer]

looks like flaming balls of somthing, not ball lightning. plasma wouldn't display a recoil like that, bouncing up and down.

[Weendigo172]

There are other theories in which ball lightning is not at all believed to be plasma. Check your facts before posting.