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| File Name : BALLITE1.ASC | Online Date : 05/22/95 |
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| Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : ENERGY |
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The following messages relate to the formation of small ball lightning globes.
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It is the first time I've seen anything about this phenomenon since we first
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saw it back in 1988, while doing a lightning show (ZAP-DALLAS). While bolts
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of electricity stream off the arms, I had noticed small yellowish globes about
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1/4" in diameter which appeared above the skin and flowed with the streaming
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electricity. This only occurred around 800,000 Volts or higher.
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Since sodium fluoresces yellowish orange, it seemed likely these small spheres
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originated from salt. Part of the show required a saturated salt spray to be
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sprayed onto the feet and a metal plate to enhance conductivity. Distilled
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water was sprayed on the head to keep the hair from catching on fire.
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In an attempt to track the source of the spheres down, we took great pains
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that no salt water was allowed anywhere near the arms. It did not matter, as
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the spheres still appeared. We finally concluded it must be body salts that
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were being carried to the surface of the skin due to iontophoresis. This is
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probably not the final answer, but is the closest we could get to an
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explanation. .GIF images are available as ZAP1, ZAP2 AND ZAP3. We could
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never get a picture of the spheres because of lighting and proximity problems.
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From: edward@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Edward Lewis)
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Subject: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found!
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Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
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Organization: University of Chicago
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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 01:16:12 GMT
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alt.sci.physics.new-theories:14533
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(c) 1994 by Edward Lewis All Rights Reserved
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December 22, 1994
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I have been posting articles about tiny ball lightning and plasmoids for a
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while now. In a letter to the Editor in the December, 1994 issue of FUSION
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TECHNOLOGY, Matsumoto reports about the observation of tiny ball lightning in
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several cold fusion experiments, and he suggests that people use nuclear
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emulsions. He's written manuscripts about tiny ball lightning that are
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produced by discharge apparatus also. Sufficient evidence of the production
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of things that can be called "plasmoids" or tiny ball lightning is the many
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kinds of plasmoid traces that Matsumoto has produced, and the EB-filament
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paper by Nardi and Bostick et al.: V. Nardi, W. H. Bostick, J. Feugeas, and
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W. Prior, "Internal Structure of ELectron-Beam Filaments," Physical Review A,
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22, no. 5, 2211 (November, 1980). This is substantial proof, in my opinion.
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Some of the ring traces are very similar, and some of the other traces are
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similar too. I'd also like to suggest that people use nuclear emulsions awith
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various kinds of cold fusion and plasmoid experiments. Many of the plasmoids
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produced by electrolysis and discharge are the same. And people have known
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for a long time that plasmoids and discharges are associated with neutron
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production. They are the locus of neutron production.
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(c) 1994 by Edward Lewis All Rights Reserved
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I've posted versions of this article several times on this newsgroup since
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December of 1993; and I've posted several articles about plasmoids and cold
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fusion on this newsgroup since January of 1993. If anyone wants to reproduce
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or resend this article, get my permission first.
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PLASMOIDS AND COLD FUSION
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W. Bostick produced that which he called plasmoids by discharging through
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electrodes. Bostick wrote a paper that was titled "Plasmoids" that was
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published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in 1957(1). He may have been the first to
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apply this term to this phenomena. According to Peratt, Bostick coined the
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term In this paper, he had already began to tell others about his speculation
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that galaxies and the phenomena he produced were similar. He compared the
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shapes and the travel of these things. He also speculated a little about the
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identity of "particles." He shows pictures of different kinds of plasmoid
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shapes in the article and related these to different kinds of shapes of
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galaxies. Many people including Bostick, Alfven who is a physics Nobel Prize
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winner, Peratt and Lerner have developed similar astronomical theories that
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model the universe as plasmoids and that can be said to be derivations or
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summarizations of the experimental work of W. Bostick and others. It has
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become evident that atoms can be defined as plasmoids, especially as according
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to the phenomena produced by Ken Shoulders. It seems that there are many
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different kinds of plasmoid phenomena. The EVs that Ken Shoulders produced
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and ball lightning may be classified as kinds of this general phenomena.
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There is evidence that both plasmoids and ball lightning are associated with
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neutrons, radioactivity, production of elements, and excess radiation, and
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that they are a locus of this.
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Based on the phenomena that Matsumoto produced, the traces, the pictures and
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descriptions of electrodes, the pictures of stationary BL and corona-like
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phenomena, the visible BL-like phenomena that he reports, and the sparks that
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he observed that left traces like those produced during electrolysis and
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discharge, one may categorize CF phenomena as tiny ball-lightning or
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plasmoids. Important evidence is the holes and trails on and in emulsions and
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electrodes that Matsumoto produced by discharging and electrolysis, the holes
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in electrodes that Liaw et al. produced, the holes in electrodes that others
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produced, the empty areas in electrodes that are shaped liked grains that
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Matsumoto and Silver et al. produced and the half-empty grains that Matsumoto
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produced, and the holes and tunnels and trails on and in electrodes that
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Silver produced. The tunnels, round holes, and trail-like marks are similar
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to those that are produced by ball lightning phenomena, though ball lightning
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are associated with bigger effects. These tunnels, round holes, and trail-
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like marks are also similar to those produced by the EV phenomena that K.
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Shoulders produced. Silver and his co-authors who published a paper in the
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December, 1993 issue of FUSION TECHNOLOGY have reproduced the tunnels, holes,
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and trail-like markings in metals that Matsumoto produced. These tunnels,
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holes, and trail-marks are evidence of the conversion and change of materials.
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Important evidence that both CF phenomena and substance in general are
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plasmoid phenomena is Matsumoto's experience of the production of electricity
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by apparatus. I suspect that plasmoid phenomena such as electrodes and other
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materials may convert to be bigger plasmoids and light and electricity. EVs
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and ball lightning are known to convert to light and electricity. I think
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that all substance can be identified as plasmoid phenomena.
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I suspect that the round holes in electrodes that Matsumoto produced and the
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round holes and tunnels that Silver produced are due to the boring of BL-like
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phenomena -- the substance was converted to light, electricity or other kinds
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of plasmoids, I suspect. And I suspect that the grain-shaped voids or pits
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that they produced is evidence of the conversion of the grain to light or
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electricity or of the production of other kinds of plasmoids, though there may
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also be the distortion of the grains or the dislocation of grains by
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separation. Some plasmoids are apparently able to travel through materials,
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even if the plasmoids are very big. The plasmoids that Matsumoto has produced
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does this, and this is major evidence to support my deductions. Matsumoto has
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also shown pictures of sectioned electrodes with what seem to me to be trail-
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like tracks, as if tiny BL-like phenomena traveled inside and left tracks.
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Many other anomalous phenomena can be described as plasmoid phenomena. For
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example, superconductivity seem to be similar to the phenomena of ball
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lightning traveling though materials such as ceramics and glass without
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leaving holes or visible effects, yet ball lightning may convert to an
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electrical surge after touching a wire or it may convert to a bolt of
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lightning. Also, sonoluminescence seems to be a phenomena of the water
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converting to light and perhaps electricity.
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1) W. Bostick, "Plasmoids," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 197, 87 (October 1957).
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From: Visor@globalcom.net
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Subject: Re: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found!
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Date: Mon, 08 May 95 22:21:47 PDT
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Organization: GlobalCom
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> I have been posting articles about tiny ball lightning and plasmoids for a
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while now. In a letter to the Editor in the December, 1994 issue of FUSION
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TECHNOLOGY, Matsumoto reports about the observation of tiny ball lightning
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in several cold fusion experiments,
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>text removed<
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You may be interested in an experiment that I conducted in 1982. While
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stimulating water vapor (H 2 O) with a high voltage source I witnessed
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something that may be relevant to your post.
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I called it the production of active plasma, but you may call it tiny ball
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lighting. The water vapor was in a pyrex 1000ml beaker into which electrodes
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were installed.
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Moments after the power was introduced a very bright -ball- of plasma appeared
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in the beaker. This ball then adhered to the inside wall of the beaker. Within
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seconds this -ball-melted a tiny pinhole at the point of contact. The -ball-
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then
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(I guess oozed is a good word) through this tiny hole. The -ball-followed a
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spiral path around the room (I dove for the floor by the way) and after about
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70 seconds disapeared.
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From: Chris Morriss <CRSM@oroboros.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found!
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Date: 10 May 1995 21:02:30 +0100
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Organization: Demon Internet
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The recent miniature ball lightning discussion took me back to my early teens
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when I was an enthusiastic but illegal pirate radio operator together with a
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few of my friends. One of the things we used to try to do was to develop
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antenna tuning units that would manage to get very short lengths of wire to
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act as a transmitting antenna. The RF voltages on the antenna were very high
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and I often got very painful RF arcs to the skin of my hand, accompanied by
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the unmistakable smell of roast human!
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The interesting thing is that 2 or 3 times when I got an RF arc to a piece of
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surrounding metalwork I saw a miniature spherical orange/yellow ball detach
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itself from the arc and travel in a zig-zag path for perhaps a couple of
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seconds.
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As it travelled it made a sizzling noise with small 'firework sparkler' type
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bits coming out of it. The ball could only have been 1 or 2mm in diameter. I
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guess these things might also have been of the same form as ball lightning.
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Has anybody else noticed anything like this?
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--
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Chris Morriss
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