Re: Kiril Chukanov

[Jones Beene]

Everytime I think about ball lightning, I wonder if it could be related to a larger version of the EVO of Ken Shoulders. Could there be two different stability regimes for a massive number of temporarily bound-electrons (one micron-range and one cm-range)?   Also there is that recurrent image of the "ball torus" which everyone thinks at first glance is a sphere but it really is a torus in which the ID has shrunk to zero, and the luminosity prohibits seeing the inner features at the poles. The name for this shape is the "spherical toroid" and the newer Tokomak designs also approach this shape.   This particular toroid shape you will recall is also present in the "bubble" - which collapses in sonoluminescence. It is really not spherical at all but toroidal.   Jones   ... or maybe all this shape-musing is a further manifestation of the earwig I been plagued by lately, thanks to Lucinda: I wanna watch the ocean bend the edges of the sun in...   BTW, this reference to "VD"s in the cited article by Richard (Ball lightning being one of a number of natural phenomena, which Dmitriev et al. refer to as “vacuum domains” or “VDs) is an unfortunate acronym - as was the acronym "EV" before it was slightly improved to "EVO" but is that a Russian or a Freudian slip?   It also reminds me of an old post of Fred about "Dark Suckers". Electric bulbs which don't emit light; they suck dark. It is a funny article and probably in the Vortex archives - and like so many things which show up here - there is a hint of truth to it.   ERGO: Ball lightning could be both VD and dark-sucker ;-)    Now I should just end it there... but as there is some punny material in that aforementioned article (even if insightful), and as this is a slow morning : then, speaking of VDs, and VDs-as-angels etc, and "levity disks" and exploiting dark-suckers -   ....I am trying hard not to mention Hugh Grant's old associate... wasn't the name "Divine Brown" ...       ----- Original Message ----- From: RC Macaulay To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Kiril Chukanov Mark Goldes posted this link to Chukanov website that reports on his work with ball lightning www.chukanovenergy.com Here is another link on ball lightning that has some interesting views. http://ascension2000.com/ConvergenceIII/c307.htm Few people have ever seen ball lightning in nature. I saw it once during a fierce combo hurricane and lightning storm in 1932 at Galveston bay near LaPorte Texas. The massive bolt of lightning struck across the raod from our home. As the bolt decayed, the segments were visible and I saw several separate balls float toward the ground. They were glowing and had fiery tails on their tops similar to a quepee doll's tuft of hair on top. they disaappeared in the undergrowth . The toatal time frame was in seconds. Richard