plutonium.archimedes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wqrites:
>If you look at that photo and read the literature, it appears that
>Ball Lightning is associated with nearby
>iron metal and since Lightning is a Capacitor Current that a Meissner
>type of effect occurred causing
>the current to so to speak-- "ball up" by forcing out the magnetic
>field.
[...]
>Now I do not know if other re****ted cases of Ball Lightning had some
>metal iron nearby but in the above
>two instances of Richmann being killed and the Nagano photo, we
>obviously see the close proximity of metal iron.
When a uni student I boarded with an elderly widow. One day a
thunderstorm passed over while I was at uni, and my landlady later
told me happened. She was in her kitchen when a ball of electricity
fell vertically down an internal wall (from the ceiling to the floor).
When it hit the floor the ball broke into two. One piece shot along
the floor for about 2 metres to weave through a door open into the
hallway and disappear down the hallway towards an external door.
The other piece scooted around the boundary of the kitchen floor
roughly describing a semicircle before it vanished into thin air.
There was a loud pop associated with the event. I forget now whether
the pop happened when the original ball hit the floor and broke in two,
or whether it was when the ****tion in the kitchen 'vapourised' into
nothing.
As you surmise, located on the other side of that internal wall was
the vertical steel flue (i.e., chimney) of the oil combustion heater,
going straight from near floor level up through the roof. The heater
was set into the internal wall and was double sided: heating both the
kitchen and the hallway.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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