At 08:09 am 31/10/2005 -0800, you wrote: > Every time I think about ball lightning, I wonder > if it could be related to a larger version of the EVO > of Ken Shoulders.
I don't doubt it. > 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. > Good points. 8-) > 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. I don't "recall" cos I didn't know that. Do you have a reference, or better still a URL. Cheers, Frank
