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Ball lightning, also known as fire ball, is a luminous globe which occurs in the course of a thunderstorm. Taking as model of fire ball, the two fluid plasma consisting of electrons and one species ions, and considering that the plasma flow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ana Marcia Alves Taveira , Paulo Hiroshi Sakanaka

The gamma ray burst phenomenon is reviewed from a theoretical point of view, with emphasis on the fireball shock scenario of the prompt emission and the longer wavelenght afterglow. Recent progress and issues are discussed, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Meszaros

The enigmatic downchirped signals, called "perytons", that are detected by radio telescopes in the GHz frequency range may be produced by an atmospheric phenomenon known as ball lightning (BL). If BLs act as nonstationary radiofrequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

The quantum plasma theory has flourished in the past few years without much regard to the physical validity of the formulation or its connection to any real physical system. It is argued here that there is a very limited physical ground for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 J. Vranjes , B. P. Pandey , S. Poedts

Thus far, in spite of many interesting developments, the overall progress towards a systematic study and classification of various 'strange' metallic states of matter has been rather limited. To that end, it was argued that a recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-22 D. V. Khveshchenko

The wave nature of the light, applied to the kinematics of the moving bodies, permits to investigate and find a coherent solution on some questions raised by the theory of special relativity about the Lorentz contraction.

General Physics · Physics 2011-02-21 Giovanni Zanella

The nature of ball lightning (BL) is pure electric and can be described by simple equations following to elementary considerations of equality of translational acceleration and velocity of the ions and electrons, a spherical-like dipole BL…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 V. N. Soshnikov

There is a persistent state of confusion regarding the nature of the Unruh effect. We will argue that, in contrast to some interpretations thereof, the effect does not represent any novel physics and that, by its very nature, the effect is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Igor Peña , Daniel Sudarsky

Physical conditions of formation of the ball lightning with high energy density considered as condensate of heavily excited atoms have been studied. In our approach the ball lightning formation processes is considered as a form of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Emelin , A. L. Pirozerski , G. E. Skvortsov , V. L. Bychkov

Theories proposing a varying speed of light have recently been widely promoted under the claim that they offer an alternative way of solving the standard cosmological problems. Recent observational hints that the fine structure constant may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 George F. R. Ellis , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The complex branched structure of lightning induce scientists to think that dielectric breakdown is a very complicated phenomena, we will show that this is not true and that simulating the structure of lightning is an easy task, but depends…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco Vera

In the last few years, the so-called flyby anomaly has been widely discussed, but remains still an illusive topic. This is due to the harsh conditions experienced during an Earth flyby as well as due to the limited data available. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-14 O. Bertolami , F. Francisco , P. J. S. Gil , J. Páramos

In this paper, the author brings further details regarding his Lightning Ball observation that were not mentioned in the first one (Ref.1-2). Additionally, he goes more into detail as the three forces that are necessary to allow the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-13 Domokos Tar

The brief characteristic of a place and state of modern experimental investigations of a ball lightning on the basis of metastable substance is given.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Emelin , A. L. Pirozerski

A simple model is applied to study a high temperature rather dense plasma ball. It is assumed that the ions and delocalized electrons are distributed uniformly throughout the ball, and extra/missing charge is found in a thin layer on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-07-04 Yuri Kornyushin

Though many experiments appear to have confirmed the light speed invariance postulate of special relativity theory, this postulate is actually unverified. This paper resolves this issue by first showing the manner in which an illusion of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-21 Stephan J. G. Gift

Several principal aspects of a theoretical approach to the theory of faster-than-light particles (tachyons) are considered in this note. They concern the resolution of such problems of tachyon theory as the causality violation by tachyons,…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 V. F. Perepelitsa

Ball lightning is one of the most mysterious atmospheric phenomena, whose long lifetime, penetrative ability, and stability are difficult to explain with traditional physical models. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-13 Zhe Li

Recent observations of variability in the ``atmospheric neutrino'' rate place constraints on possible explanations of the atmospheric neutrino anomaly. Many proposed solutions to the problem are static and can not be adapted to the temporal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. LoSecco

We survay some nice result concerning the irrationals with a metric space point of view.Here is ofcourse nothing new may be or an expert in this field.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pratip Chakraborty