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We present a comprehensive theory on the formation of ball lightning, a luminous sphere sometimes observed after normal lightning. In a ball lightning event, a relativistic electron bunch can be produced by the stepped leader of lightning…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 H. -C. Wu

In the superconducting medium the circular current supported by its own magnetic field can exist giving rise to the possible underlying mechanism for the ball lightning.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Birbrair

The ball lightning is supposed to be a shock wave of a point explosion frozen with electrostriction forces of the internal strong laser discharge. The life time of the ball with modest parameters is calculated.

Optics · Physics 2011-09-06 Vladimir K. Ignatovich

Ball lightning is an impressive natural electromagnetic phenomenon occurring in atmosphere under suitable circumstances. Its origin, composition and stability issues are a matter of debate, due to presence of many evidences still…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-15 Daniele Funaro

Eddy Current Model of Ball Lightning Calculations show that high-energy ball lightning may consist of a ball of plasma containing a large circular electric current arising as an eddy current generated by lightning. Synthetic ball lightning…

General Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 J. D. Shelton

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

Formation of a lightning within a cloud, between clouds and towards the earth is studied as an application of sociophysics. The three dimensional society is sky or cloud, which has members as electrically charged clouds (in sky) or patches…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Caglar Tuncay

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

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

There is at present no theory that can explain the curious properties of ball lightning. This suggests that we may not be using the most appropriate concepts. The concept of a 'parallel space' may point the way to a valid theory.

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 P. A. Sturrock

A detailed simple model is applied to study a high temperature plasma ball. It is assumed that the ions and delocalized electrons are distributed randomly throughout the charged plasma ball (extra/missing charge is assumed to be found in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Yuri Kornyushin

Layer clouds are abundant in the Earth's atmosphere. Such clouds do not become sufficiently strongly charged to generate lightning, but they show weak charging along the upper and lower cloud boundaries where there is a conductivity…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 R Giles Harrison , Keri Nicoll , Karen Aplin

The ball lightning phenomenon is explained in the frame of a self-organization scenario suggested by experiments performed on the spontaneously generated complex spherical space charge configuration in plasma. Originated in a hot plasma,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-08-31 Erzilia Lozneanu , Sebastian Popescu , Mircea Sanduloviciu

Following his observation the author has described in the papers [1] to [4] the formation of a Lightning Ball (LB)with the help of a new theory of symmetry breaking of the vortex ring. In the frame of this theory he emphasizes the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-21 Domokos Tar

The phenomenon of ball lightning has been observed for a long time, but the nature of these luminous balls has been unknown. It is proposed here that they consist of highy excited Rydberg atoms with large polarizabilities that bind them…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Gilman

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

This report uses a few well documented cases of Ball Lightning (or BL for short) observations to demonstrate a correlation between BL and positive lightning, especially strong positive lightning. This allows to draw conclusions and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 H. Boerner

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

The corona is a layer of hot plasma that surrounds the Sun, traces out its complex magnetic field, and ultimately expands into interplanetary space as the supersonic solar wind. Although much has been learned in recent decades from advances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Steven R. Cranmer , Amy R. Winebarger

A detailed simple model is applied to study a high temperature hydrogen plasma ball. It is assumed that the ions and delocalized electrons are distributed randomly throughout the charged plasma ball (extra/missing charge is assumed to be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Yuri Kornyushin
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