Ball lightning experiment

[reknub]

woooo

[fyrdawg589]

you can also find this in welding shops made with arc welders

[HellKnight93]

what the fuck? you just getting hot bits of metal flying. that same thing happens when you are welding metal.

[codyjohn1551]

l'm not an expert on this, but whatever other people say, im pretty sure plasma is supposed to float...

[sepyoukey]

@codyjohn1551 ... why?

[codyjohn1551]

@sepyoukey For starters, every ball lightning in nature video ive seen, were floating in mid-air. Second, just like fire, it rises up. Whatever it is made of, the molecules go up, just like fire. l've also seen a water discharge plasmaball, which was floating, the microwave plasmaball is also floating. By all means, l cant say this is ball lightning. l'm pretty sure one of the characteristics is that ball lightning usually floats..

[codyjohn1551]

@sepyoukey Because l recall that one of the characteristics, is that plasma usually floats..

[sepyoukey]

@codyjohn1551 What does plasma float upon? Why does something float? Is all ball lightning the same?  What makes up ball lightning? If ball lightning is a plasma, then it is electrically charged. How does that influence its behavior? Keep asking questions.

[codyjohn1551]

@sepyoukey ...You think l invented plasma? lf it floats it floats. Every kind of fire floats too, the molecules rise up, blue, red, orange, purple, green, yellow. Every form of fire floats. Google it, and you can see the characteristics. l'm not trying to put things down here, but you gotta accept that this isnt ball lightning. lf anyone can correct me, please do. This is simply a heated sillicon that creates glow vapor.

[sepyoukey]

@codyjohn1551 yes, OBVIOUSLY, I think you invented plasma. Please, at least look up any definition of plasma, or vapor... or floating. I am not putting anything down either. However, I don't think you know the first thing about ball lightning. Nobody needs to correct you because you've given nothing factual to correct, blue, red, orange, purple, green, yellow.

[codyjohn1551]

@sepyoukey ...Seems like l know more about ball lightning than you...show me a video of natural ball lightning thats not floating? Good luck.

PS: You should watch the show ''weird connections, great balls of fire''. A man did the same thing as you, and he was told it was NOT ball lightning. Later on, a professor shows you how to really make ball lightning. Dont act so immature.

[sepyoukey]

I really appreciate all the comments.  I especially like the ones stating that plasma isn't affected by gravity - those sound REALLY intelligent. And you experts on ball lightning: glad to meet you. In my research I couldn't find any consensus about what it really is. But I'm glad that you know everything about it. Keep up the good work!

[agentgates]

This is molten metal. If it was a ball lightening would have ran over the electric wire and bur whatever is in its way.

[pkrska]

Ball Lightning can also be created when rocks are crushed together. Like when there is an earthquake and the tectonic plates move against each other, crushing rocks between, and whamo, ball lightning is made.

[astrocl2eep]

Idiots saying that this is "Welding Slag" and not "Ball Lightning" or "Plasma" at least search goddamn Wikipedia before commenting. Plasma = Super heating gas, which this clearly is. Yes, that is a welding rod re: Tungsten, no what they are touching it to isn't metal, it's Silicon. This is a real experiment attempting to explain ball lighting phenomena. Super heated Silicon creates a glow vapor.

[Erika445566]

Turn the light off and do it!!

[jsymons1985]

Uploader is a mutherfucker for not adding any context (You cunt), so I am left to do so: Experiments in 2007 involved shocking silicon wafers with electricity, which vaporizes the silicon and induces oxidation in the vapors. The visual effect can be described as small glowing, sparkling orbs that roll around a surface. These experiments stemmed from the theory that ball lightning is actually oxidized silicon vapors

[klin1klinom]

Since nothing is know about the nature of ball lightning it's up to anyone to claim a any flying spark and/or dome/sphere shaped formation to be "it".

[matataka]

that honestly does look like plasma but if you have the two crossed here is a semi useful answer...Ball lightning is when electrons travelling at abnormally high speeds (even for them) intersect they start to weave through eachother and create an overlapping electromagnetic field that keeps rejuvenating itself until the core electrons sway out of the inside and disappears. this electromagnetic field is very fragile and it can release its pent up energy very, very easily.

[Anjish]

Er- to MOST of the commentors... wouldn't molten steel... leave a residue?

[kartkid100]

that looks like little molten balls of silicon bouncing around, portland state physics dept has some work to do.

[jhunted7667]

that not ball lightning , the molecular weight of a super heated piece of metal bounces like that on the ground , ball lightning floats above the ground , not controlled by regular gravity rather it will gravitate to ionic static charge or discharge to immediate atmosphere with a bang

[Twizt3dArc]

These are obviously boiling blobs of molten tungsten from the rod bouncing around on the ground.

[Quantumface]

OH HELLS YEAH

[trofodotiki]

Weak...Its slug from a welder, you can even see it in the box, and hear it in the background, undeniable buzz.

[DOornroowsJe]

this is so stupid i cant believe it has 6300 views.

[magnusalexa]

ball lightnin is a myth thought up by sceptics,light emmittin UFOs or intelligences is what thousands of people have seen & referred to as bein UFOS or an intelligent object.

im 37 & writin a book about UFOS cause ive seen nearly 20 UFOs comprisin of 6 different objects.

I've seen 3 kinds which appeared as light emmitting objects.One is bright white light,a other a fiery like ball bout 20metres across, the other was blue coloured 1.5metre globe that had clear smaller globe in middle.

[BenSTA09]

lol pretty cool is a bouncing ball of light so its close enuff correct me if im wrong but both are plasma balls that are light so its the same thing just made a different way

[xXtortionXx]

lol you guys are melting some sort of metal with high current, my guess would be solder. and that is not ball lightning, ball lightning is very high voltage, this looks like a spark from a car battery...

[chikotube]

that's just slag that vaporizes

[funkyplayer4212]

Seems to be an effective way to set a lab on fire.

[bloodred32567]

wow thats mad how it bounces on the floor

[Soxkse]

it reminds me of those energy balls form half life 2. ( :

[blenxnxnx]

this is fukin stupid..lightning balls arent created in any lab,coz even there is no true hypothesis about those lightings.... go to google and try to search

[JamesMorrow07]

0:14 "Ooooooh!"

Funny.

[ElementalDragonArt]

THATS SO COOL >:D

[armenac92]

well a lighting ball fys and is much more powerful then that.

[Patriziodimario]

That's incredible! Pure energy balls that jump like material balls! Like a ghost could had a material behaviour!

[bluecello77]

Can this lightening be just as harmful to someone as regular lightening?

[lb10003]

I saw real ball lightning in a house during a thunderstorm. The house was nearly hit by lightning, 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 DID resemble what you see in this video, only the real ones were much bigger and faster.

[lb10003]

I saw real ball lightning inside a house and it did resemble what is seen here. The house was nearly hit by lightning, 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. Yes, ball lightning does bounce.

[NamelessFTW]

are they just burning bits of metal bouncing around or are they plasma from gas that was between the two points

[solidsneic]

non hai fatto un cazzo americano di merda

[theguyuknowaswoo]

touchit :D

[autocon2002]

notice how they bounce higher with each consecutive bounce.

[simyrus]

and then presumably hit the ceiling? i think not.

[chocobees]

is that really ball lightning looks more like a skittering spark. I thought it was supposed to like stay up it the air for a few seconds and never hit the ground am i wrong?

[pikachuXash]

No they made melting pieces of metal

[PrecisionEngineered]

Not ball lightening.

[mludwig150]

yeah bro... its hot slag rolling across the floor. You can see the welding rod in the box...

[surfmasterflash]

Unfortunately this isn't ball lightning, but superheated pieces of metal coming from the electrodes bouncing around on the ground.

[Anjish]

@surfmasterflash One hypothesis for ball lightning is that it's made up silicon particles, This experiment is obviously based on that hypothesis.

[ExClUr]

Yeah, right, "ball lightning" indeed.

[telesniper2]

this is just standard arc welding throwing off sparks, it has NOTHING to do with ball lightning!!!

[raynels]

nah, thats chemistrier than phisics.

[calumstevens]

Emm, thats not lightning!? its welding and hot peices of metal!?!?

[TonyFirelli]

no...

[FlowCell]

Yes. This is burning hot metal that Ben Franklin described during his electricity research.

What you want to do is force a massive amount of electricity through a small volume of water, say five our six liters.

You'll get your plasma lightening then.

[boxa888]

tesla made ball lightning from his magnifying transmitter. its the interference of high energy earth currents created by the coil and the iterference causes the energy to form balls of energy. he said that if a ball was to have hit someone it would destroy them instantly, this was 100 years ago, natural lightning discharges can do the same thing. but tesla was the first scientist to create ball lightning!

[sepyoukey]

Ok, first just re-read what you just wrote and tell me if it makes any sense to you. Second, the first documented case of laboratory ball lightning was at least 100 years earlier. In 1753 Georg Richmann was killed by it. It blew him right out of his shoes. Poor fella.

[boxa888]

cool how did he make it?? what apparatus was he using. i love learning this stuff.

[NexAngelus405]

He was imitating Ben Franklin using the kite flying experiment. He wasn't trying to create it.

[theBookofEnoch]

yeah Richmann installed a lightning rod in his home, and ball lightning struck him in the head and killed him

[moomoochacoo]

i dont think he created it though, he just had lighting rod that attracted lighting. Telsa (i believe) experimented and created them. Correct me if im wrong .

[Chirigami]

Actually I *think* he never made them "controlled"/stable enough to be taken as actual proof. Not completely sure though.

[Dentarthurdent54]

What *didn't* Tesla create???

[Hazer88DU]

tesla

[Anjish]

@boxa888 Yup High Energy Earth Currents. Wow, you must've studied a LOT of science.

[jayhelldee]

The description was a perfectly formed ORB made up of thousands of tiny little

sparks,about the size of two baseballs and very bright.. My mum was behind the door

turning the central heating up and she thought it had come from there until we told

her what happend. But no marks were left on the door.

[jayhelldee]

We used to joke that a ufo was

charging itself up at the plug socket. Also when i turned the TV on,nothing happened,infact it turned on by itself without touching any breakers or fuses,all

other electricity in the house seemed to be working fine when the TV/video wouldnt

turn on.

[jayhelldee]

About 20 years ago,me my mum and borther returned home. Has i walked to turn the TV on,a perfectly round shape about 6 inches wide and made of thousands of little

sparks. It shot across the room and past my brother and then travelled through the

door and past my mother. It seemed like it came from the plug socket,it left no marks

on the door. Im sure someone will have a simple explanation,i just cant find one

myself,so if anyone can explain,i would be greatfull. it had perfect geometry

[Pyrotrons]

No offense, but that "plasma" ball looks a hell of a lot like hot globs of metal (slag) from welding. In fact, are you sure that's not what you're doing? ; )

[sepyoukey]

Well, our bottom "electrode" is silicon, which is there before, and has been vaporized after. So, yeah, pretty sure.

[MADEinChinaVIDEOS]

hahahaha "keep rollin!!!" " i am!"...." i was talking to the ball" hahaha thats was mint!!

[maryanneanderson]

SO COOL!!!

[ondahonda]

check this out... Professor Sven's Ball-Lightning Experiment

[c0rnf1ake]

yeah i saw a documentary about them trying to create it. Seems like everyoneys being ignorant and giving you a hard time lol, the gays

[sepyoukey]

You saw a documentary? Where'd ya see that?

[c0rnf1ake]

i duno it was like a year ago on just one of the channels, it was quite good. they showed the scientists tring 2 creat it and they seemed close, like this

[ondahonda]

hi dude. i checked microwave ball lightning on the tube and low and behold, some dude was producing amazing balls of energy with a domestic microwave and a lightbulb! no shit i could,t believe my eye's. it took me about one min to find afteeeer i last watched this. sorry i took so long to post.

[plasticprism]

arguing over plasma - tut, tut. <¦¬|

[BrunswickGeorgia]

slag

[crispyfritters]

davetista just got shut down.

[davetista]

Are you sure they weren't just big sparks bouncing around and smoking?

[sepyoukey]

Pretty sure. Are you sure they aren't plasmas of evaporated silicon?

[Sardcor]

"Are you sure they aren't plasmas of evaporated silicon?" - I'm sure. Plasma has much higher temperature than that.

[sepyoukey]

Plasma has a much higher temperature than what? There is no one temperature for plasma.

[diazflac07]

if u couldnt tell there is a plate of glass in between the thing creating the "sparks" and the people... and if u watch the "sparks" pass right through it... though im not gonna say its ball lighting but that has to be one magic spark to pass though glass...

[Thinktank95]

are u sure it passed the glass?

[gillcarlow]

i see an elektrik fire coming

[4neidr]

I studied Physics & was a Boilermaker/Welder. Place a very shallow, white pan- a lunchroom tray,perhaps?- filled with water on the floor in front of the square tube frame. That probably will catch what we call welding spatter- tiny incandescent balls of near molten metal forming slag pellets, much, much smaller than their "fireballs". You'll find 1 (one) mm. oxide balls in the bottom of the pan. There's plasma in your video,but probably not dancing around on your floor- only in the arc. Sorry.

[legendarystrawhat]

any way I can form a bigger version of this?

[pianolover1986]

really cool

[xyly]

good try! ;) but it looks really hot, why don't you guys stay away from it? ;)

[sjoerdbeukers]

That's no ball lightning.. it is burning steel.

[sepyoukey]

We didn't use steel.

[drdre113]

Is the ball actually passing through glass? or is the frame just open?

[sepyoukey]

open frame

[ondahonda]

dude i could tell it was molten steel imediately . you only saw plasma cause you looked for it. even i know you will probably need some kind of microwave field to generate ball lightning. as far as i know ball lightning doesn't even carry a current!

[sepyoukey]

Ok, so what is your microwave source in nature? Remember, we're trying to explain a natural phenomenon by creating small scale replicas in the lab.

P.S. - there is NO STEEL in this setup.

[Imzadi4Ukiyo]

I don't really know anything about plasmoids or ball lightning, but the sparks in the video seem significantly bound by the force of gravity. Other clips of (microwave) plasmoids, seem to defy gravity significantly. Also, the stories i"ve heard of ball lightning seem to imply that it defies gravity as well. Am I wrong? if not how do you account for gravity's affect on your sparks?

[sepyoukey]

Yeah, I don't know how many times I have to write this, but there is no natural focused microwave source outside that would make the microwaved plasmoids a good representation for nature. Plasma has mass. Gravity acts upon mass. That is how I account for it.

[KamakazieIdiot]

ball lightning is plazma. molten metal does not behave like that. and steel, when molten would damage the floor

[bdcanis]

so ur saying when i am welding, and shit flies off, that is some sorts of plasma that is ball lightning. its said that scientists cant even construct ball lightning (atleast thats wat i read online)

[sepyoukey]

No, that's not what I'm saying. And what you're looking at IS scientists attempting to construct ball lightning.

[blackrose325]

Aw its so cute lol

[roystonerizer]

O..k...

[notmack]

Just wondering, could these famous ball lightning incidents be just natural occurrences of superheated plasma? Like the kind produced by microwaving a lit match?

[sepyoukey]

Well, first, I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to by "famous ball lightning incidents," but certainly, the naturally occurring ball lightning could be plasmas. Though, they are probably formed in a very different manner than say, the match in the microwave plasmas.

[notmack]

I'm talking about incidents in which a sphere of light suddenly forms, act erratically and last for several seconds. As for the homemade plasma, since it moves about within the microwave and dents the interior, this implies that it could be very similar to ball lightning in terms of its formation and overall structure. I'm not saying that microwaves are involved in the formation of natural ball lightning, just that the factors and environment could be very similar. Sorry if that was redundant

[Darxtarox]

yeah it's the same thing but there's much more electromagnetism in the atmosphere so plasma can be formed from gases rather than more condensed things like solids.

[FretWanker]

look up "foo fighter", the phenomenon, not the band.

[Darxtarox]

ball lightning could be plasma. that's most likely what it is.

[grah55]

highly reactive metal is not ball lightning... nt though

[sepyoukey]

Um, to what highly reactive metal are you referring? The silicon?

[derjew]

Well your the one who thinks hot metal is plasma. So what "plasma" are you referring to.

[ribenawrath]

lol- 0.13...

wooo....

[reut1470]

ball lighting does not give off heat ... but if you touch it , it will burn you

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[timerboy]

what happens when u touch....does it burn or is it like sparks

[sepyoukey]

One of them burned a nice little hole in my shirt.

[heartlessxocean]

I adore you guys. XD

[doublemeat]

If those were plasma, why would they be so clearly under the influence of gravity? What you've set up is your basic arc welder, and you are spitting off little balls of super-hot slag.

[sepyoukey]

I disagree. We saw a distinct difference between the slag and the plasmas balls. Why wouldn't gravity affect plasma, which is made up of matter? And there are clearly other forces involved, as you see the plasma jump higher when it's by my leg, than when it's by the cable.

[doublemeat]

Plasma is energetic ionized gas, and unconstrained is "lighter" than the ambient air. Plasma would not cohesively bounce around like water dancing on a hot skillet (like hot slag). Meteorites leave trails of plasma, which quickly dissapate and don't bounce to earth. Real science demands rigorous control and methodical removal of bias--things jumping higher off your leg is neither. The simpler explanation given just the video of apparent arcing across metal and bouncy things, is hot slag.

[sepyoukey]

There is much information available to be researched about plasmas, in general, or ball lightning, specifically. While plasma may be created of elements that would make them lighter than air at sea-level, most elements, including many gases are heavier than air. Plasmas are created all the time in laboratories, industry, and nature that do not instantly float away. The meteorite analogy is so far off base, that I don't even know where to start, though I mean no personal offense.

[lidixmang]

is that actual ball lightning? it looks pieces of metal sparking off the electrode and just bouncing around until it cools off.... hmm.... are you guys using a spinning commutator for a spark gap?

[DisguiseOfTexas]

Try to eat one...

[SaveTheWhales369]

haha u first! XD

[redeyesthe20th]

i will they may be millions of degries but the amout of mass is so small the accoual cal, or jouls(sp) is so low it would bearly burn the nervious system..

[gjgjkg]

lol