"Ball Lightning & Degenerate Electrons"
Has a nice ring to it.
I had a hunch that there might be a connection. However a google search
turns up little, on first blush, which is relevant.
This one paper does mention both: "Helix String Model for Turbulent
Vorticity and Cavitation in Shearing Arc Plasma" by DIJKHUIS
... and would be interesting...
... except for the price: $4,043 !! That's right - a yearly subscription
is required which costs over $4000. Maybe on my next trip over to the
Cal Library, I can save $4,042.40 (if the my prepaid Xerox card still works)
Abstract
ABSTRACT: This paper models turbulent vorticity in shearing plasma
layers as strings of identical helix units smoothly joined at their
junctions. We obtain helix strings tying loops, knots, links and braids
on tetragonal and cubic lattices. In state diagrams for conduction
electrons in cool, dense discharge plasma we find a subdomain for
cavitation and curves with zero chemical potential for equilibrium of
fermi and bose systems. We present a scaling cycle of vortex stretching,
twisting, breaking and reconnection at high Reynolds number forming
vortex lattices at arbitrary mesh refinement. Its exponential particle
acceleration brings ion circulation energy within range of high-energy
events associated with lightning and ball lightning. This vortex plasma
has a state equation with negative pressure for self-confinement. We
argue that its energy surface in phase space favours self-organization.
And we discuss vortex plasma with steady-state energy conversion by
buoyancy in the nuclear fusion regime.
