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Ball lightning is a very rarely observed phenomenon that makes it extremely difficult to characterize scientifically. Eye-witness accounts of ball lightning that describe many features in common have been variously recorded for centuries.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Neil J. Gunther

While ball lighting is known to exist from thousands of observations, its properties have never been explained by known physics. The combined order of magnitude of power, size, time scale, and characteristic behavior of ball lightning have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 John P. Ralston

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

A new study of the initial phenomena occurring in the fireball should confirm the predicted creation of a new state of nuclear matter having a lifetime of 0.17 yoctosecond and releasing an energy of 3.87 GeV. The energy-time uncertainty…

General Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 C. Ythier , G. Mouze

After more than 180 years of research, ball lightning is still an unsolved problem in atmospheric physics. Since no progress can be expected without a controlled production of such objects in a laboratory, this report analyses a carefully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Herbert Boerner

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

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 case is made that in encounters with the earth's atmosphere, astrophysical little black holes (LBH) can manifest themselves as the core energy source of balllightning (BL). Relating the LBH incidence rate on earth to BL occurrence has the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mario Rabinowitz

Relativistic blast waves can be described by a mechanical model. In this model, the "blast" -- the compressed gas between the forward and reverse shocks -- is viewed as one hot body. Equations governing its dynamics are derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. M. Beloborodov , Z. L. Uhm

The special form of an electric discharge - "burn-through" in regard to the ball lightning problem has been considered. Having been carried out within closed volume, this mode of erosive discharge has shown the series of clear differences…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Emelin

Main results of researches of the electric erosive discharge afterglow plasma, of the fireballs being formed by this plasma and having some particular but deep similarities to the ball lightning are given. The analysis of our results and…

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

A radiation-ball solution which is identified as a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is found out. The radiation-ball, which is derived by analyzing the backreaction of the Hawking radiation into space-time, consists of radiation trapped in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yukinori Nagatani

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

I present estimates to justify previously proposed by me heuristic Dipole Dynamical Model (DDM) of Ball Lightning (BL). The movement and energy supplying to the dipole BL are due to the atmospheric electric field. Crucial for the detailed…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 V. N. Soshnikov

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 radiation from a relativistic electron uniformly rotating along an orbit in the equatorial plane of a dielectric ball was calculated taking into account the dielectric losses of energy and dispersion of electromagnetic oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. L. Grigoryan

Ball lighting (BL) has been observed for centuries. There are large number of books, review articles, and original scientific papers devoted to different aspects of BL phenomenon. Yet, the basic features of this phenomenon have never been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Ariel Zhitnitsky

Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be the outcome of a cataclysmic event leading to a relativistically expanding fireball, in which particles are accelerated at shocks and produce nonthermal radiation. We discuss the theoretical predictions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 P. Meszaros

A physical model of the formation of a vortex current in a plasma channel of lightning discharges due to the anomalous Hall effect caused by relativistic spin-orbit interaction phenomenon is proposed. The existence of fast electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 N. I. Petrov

As a solution to the well-known problem that the shock wave potentially responsible for the explosion of a supernova actually tends to stall, we propose a new energy source arising from our model for dark matter. Our earlier model proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Colin D. Froggatt , Holger B. Nielsen