lutonium.archimedes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Good thanks. Looks like another confirmation that Ball Lightning is
>simply a Meissner
>Effect of the fact that Lightning strikes are Capacitor Currents and
>are Superconductivity
>events. There is no resistance in a lightning bolt strike because the
>energy in is equal to
>energy out in Conservation of Energy.
>
>The "ball formation" is the ideal-diamagnetism.
>
>Now I read somewhere where people suspect a microwave oven can
>simulate ball-lightning.
>But a microwave oven is not a capacitor current, so a microwave oven
>is not a ball-lightning.
This prompted recall of 20 years ago reading a biography of a great
pioneer
in the field of electricity; I believe it was of Tesla but I invite
correction if any reader recognises another respected inventor here. (It
would have to be Tesla or Edison, as I think they are the only engineers
whose biographies I've ever read.)
Anyway, he was a proud showman, and one of his popular parlour tricks (I
use the phrase advisedly emphasising that he was not at all a magician)
was
to take a glowing "ball of electricity" from a briefcase, juggle it before
an astonished audience, then return the glowing electricity to the case
ready for the next evening. He never told anyone how he manufactured this
ball lightning, nor how he managed to store it, and he left no clues in
his
personal papers, so the secret died with him. No one else has ever
discovered how to do it.
Perhaps there's your homework. (It should be much easier than scattering
thistledown around the troposphere, too!)
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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