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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2007

found this one on some Spanish tech site, its based on superheating 350um silicon wafers with a 140A pulse then drawing an arc from them.

(DO NOT try this at home) LOL

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  • I love the genius wearing sandals.

  • Ball lightning? Yeah, or not! Think about it, hmm, ball lightning FLOATS, not SKITTERS across the ground! Check whatever you were welding, and see that it's HOT and when it comes into contact with a COLD FLOOR, it shrinks and moves! Wow!

    NOT ball lightning.

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  • Dude, wtf. Read the description before you say anything. If you weld you would know a spark is RED and ORANGE. Not yellow nature as such.

    Secondly it says he is arching a current to melt a silicone wafer.

    Third off, a welding spark doesn't fall slow, then speed up. Then aburptly dissapear.

    Do something better then trying to sound smart and trash peoples videos.

  • the fireball is jumped over the cabel!

  • What?

    You're misunderstanding him just because he didn't pluralize the word plasma. Trust me, he meant "plasmas", he's not an idiot. I doubt he seriously thinks plasma is a species of matter rather than a phase of matter. And he's right, PLASMAS cannot fall. They are WAY too light for falling. That would be like expecting me to start falling towards jupiter right now. Not gonna happen. The forces more near to me are way too strong in comparison to that pull.

  • That was an experiment...I saw that video

  • I would like to add the following 3 points in favor of that these objects are not welding balls.

    1. Their luminescence abrupt instantly.

    2. All of them tends to move in the same direction towards a view.

    3. There is no rest after their disappearance.

    These are small specific ball lightnings. (see Physical nature of ball lightning. European PJ D vol.36, no.5, pp. 319-327. 2005)

  • Plasma is not a matter genius.... it's a state of matter. It's the 4th one. 1st ones are solid , liquid and gas. There are more less common ones. Where in the fucking chemistry tabella do you find plasma?? It's not a damn matter, gee.

  • It's vaporized silicon...

  • i wouldn't call it ball lightning, it's super hot molten sparks bouncing on super heated air over a comparitivly cold floor. the same can be seen when Potassium, Sodium or lithium moves around on a cushion of gas when placed in a dish of water, as they are equally molten.

  • how did you do them? :)

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