Sir Kenyth |
06-19-2002 10:37 AM |
I saw an old threat on ball lightning and had to post about some research I did in the past. It's theorized that ball lightning is actually plasma created by some natural phenomena. You can recreate it on a small scale by using a strong microwave and smoldering embers. The guys experiment I saw created many small glowing speres that crawled around randomly (even up the wall!) and passed through things. He created them by bombarding a smoldering toothpick, held straight up in the air, with microwaves. I believe there was some other preparation involving running electrode wires into the microwave/tothpick area, but it's been too long and I can't remember. This created a cloud of charged particles that glowed and traveled around until it dissipated. He had pictures that were really cool. It's said that you can also see this phenomena when steel is being cut by an oxidizing flame. Little tiny glowing spheres bounce around the close to the point of cutting. Sparks! At the center of these sparks is usually a tiny particle emitting the charged aura. I'm gonna see if I can find the site again.
Caution! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! It will damage/destroy the microwave and expose you to unhealthy levels of microwave radiation.
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