Bazsites.com Ball Lightning

Directory Topics

130 Ball Lightning Links - Ball Lightning links.
Ball Lightning Discussion - An April 22, 1995 Usenet article discussing common characteristics of ball lightning reports and proposed theories.
Theory of Ball Lightning - Storm News article: "A Theory of Ball Lightning as an Electric Discharge" by Dr. John J. Lowke.
Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Ball Lightning - According to a statistical investigation, approximately 5% of the world population have witnessed ball lightning. Various physical theories are presented here.
Far News: Ball Lightning Experiments Produce UFOs - Two researchers in a lab in New Zealand say their experiment may explain enigmatic weather phenomena such as ball lightning.
Eddy Current Model of Ball Lightning - Theory accounting for the formation and major properties of ball lightning.
Tornadoes and Ball Lightning - A Edward Lewis paper, with the discussion of ball lightning as plasmoids.
Ball Lightning and Metastable Substance - Devoted to investigations and experimental modeling of the ball lightning and some related phenomena.
I. Langmuir's Ball Lightning Tube - A old (1920s ?) experiment about a ball lightning-like production with a vacuum tube.
Smoke Rings and the Plasma - Beginning with an interesting comparison of the physiology of a smoke ring and ball lightning, leading to the development of a device to create ball lightning, this site continues with several well-presented accounts of the phenomenon.

Ball lightning - Ball lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon, the physical nature of which is still controversial. The term refers to reports of a luminous object which varies in size from golf ball to several meters in diameter.
Ball lightning (disambiguation) - Ball lightning may refer to:
Lightning (clipper) - Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large extreme clippers to be built in the USA. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade.
Kugelblitz (disambiguation) - Kugelblitz is a compound German word, from "kugel" (ball) and "blitz" (lightning, or fire)
Plasmoid - A plasmoid is a coherent structure of plasma and magnetic fields. Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning,Silberg, Paul A.