Frank,
Wonderful information. For another Plasma video of a man-made plasma event go here. http://hometown.aol.com/hypercom59/dlc.mpg
I was told by a plasma expert that his estimate of the current required for this event would be at least 2000 amps. Tests indicate my device draws under 100 watts per hour (miliamps) something else must be happening to produce such a violent plasma event.
Chris
Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Grimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 09:05 pm 17/06/2005 -0700, Grimer wrote:
William Beaty wrote:
>> I suspect that we're looking at something unexplained.
>>
>> If I'm right, then people have been staring right at Ball Lightning for
>> decades, while at the same time fooling ourselves with wrong explanations
>> which "prove" that welding-spatter is something mundane.
> I believe you are right because it is one more
> example of a phenomena which occurs on several
> different scales.
> It seems to me that the above, ball lightning,
> Buckminster Fullerenes, Shoulders clusters,
> and last, but by no means least, Paul Rowe's
> hydrogen are all essentially the same systemic
> phenomena at different scales. In short, they
> are the result of intense hierarchical sets of!
> vortices set up by intense electrical discharge
> which involves (d^n)L/dt^n of very high orders.
> On the subject of the ultimate collapse of
> electron clusters to hydrogen it occurs to
> me that hydrogen might be manufactured in
> normal lightning strikes and that some of
> the explosive force of those strikes could
> be the result of a hydrogen-oxygen explosion.
> If this were the case I imagine that there
> would be some characteristic radiation or
> other evidence. Does anyone know what this
> would be?
Following up on the last paragraph I thought
I would go surfing on the world wide waves
to see if I could find any evidence of any
peculiar signal from lightning which might
indicate the production of hydrogen from
materon/epo polymers. To my surprise and
no little satisfaction I found the following.
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http://www.peter-thomson.co.uk/tornado/
fusion/Ball_lightning_and_the_charge_
sheath_vortex.html
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (or TGFs)
are short blasts of gamma-ray energy
associated with thunderstorms. They only
last a few milliseconds - about as long
as the sound from a snap of the fingers
- and can only be detected by satellites
orbiting the Earth. NASA scientists
inadvertently discovered TGFs while they
were monitoring bursts of gamma-ray
energy coming from the depths of space.
These gamma rays may be being produced
by fusion events within ball lightning.
One test for fusion in ball lightning
would be to test the point where ball
lightning ended for C14 levels. This
C14 may be enhanced by a few neutrons
produced by the fusion being absorbed
by nitrogen to produce C14.
One experiment demonstrates that the
release ! of energy from fusion in ball
lightning can be much more violent.
In WW2, many submarines ran with electrical
power from a bank of batteries, and if the
connections were incorrectly switched,
ball lightning would occasionally be
produced.
Professor James Tuck had access to a
submarine battery redundant from another
experiment at Los Alamos. After many
attempts to create a ball lightning discharge
–which failed- he enclosed the switchgear
in a small cellophane box and added a low
concentration of methane to it. When the
switch was turned it produced a sheet of
flame, a thundering roar, and removed the
roof from the building. The film of the
event showed a ball of light about 10cm
in diameter.
Unfortunately that was the last experiment
in the series as the building was due to be
removed for new developments.
It takes a room sized air methane mixture
of just the right concentration to pr! oduce
a gas-air explosion. These were extremely
experienced and competent scientists
introducing a very small concentration of
methane into a small container. Neither
the container of methane, nor the electrical
discharge from the battery was capable of
releasing the energy that was observed and
recorded.
The only known source of energy that could
have created this energy release would be
fusion between the atomic nuclei present
in the methane and air within a fusion
vortex inside the plasma ball. Exactly
the same mechanism as I have proposed for
ball lightning.
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One could have hardly wished for a better
signal of the generation of hydrogen and
possibly its subsequent fusion than
"Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (or TGFs)", eh! 8-)
If fusion is taking place within the
lightning strike then it is possible
that it is being mediated by hydrogen/
deuterium generated by the strike.
Professor Tuck's rather exciting
submarine battery explosion {shades
of P&F's palladium cube explosion)
suggests that if fusion is taking
place then it is the hydrogen part
of the methane which is involved.
It is interesting that,
"The film of the event showed a ball
of light about 10cm in diameter."
...is objective photographic evidence
akin to that described by William.
What I can't understand is why no
one has ever tried to reproduce
either of these two experiments
since there is nothing so convincing
to the layman as a nice big bang. 8-)
Cheers
Frank Grimer
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