Here is a brief those characteristics of ball lightning, which are made by scientists on the basis of a large number of eyewitnesses: the energy contained in the lightning - from 0.1 to 4 kWh; lifetime - from several seconds to minutes; weight - from 0.5 to 50 g; density - from 0.0013 to 0.015 g / cm3.
Of course, ball lightning has other characteristics, such as the power of light, speed and so on. D., But I was primarily interested in accumulating its properties.
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Fireballs hit the tanks, cans and other containers are always accompanied by boiling liquids contained therein. Just "experience with a barrel of" authentically described by Professor BL Goodlet, most scientists analyzed in detail.
American researcher Harold W. Lewis suggested that if the volume of ball lightning was filled with napalm or jelly gasoline, the energy napalm ball would be equal to the energy of the ball lightning. However, the energy density in this case is several times smaller - about 50 MJ / kg, but in general it is very much!
Of the many attempts to explain the nature of ball lightning while none received final recognition. To me, the most interesting shows two opposing hypotheses. According to the first, put forward in the nineteenth century by the famous French scientist Dominique Arago, ball lightning - a special compound of nitrogen and oxygen, and that the interaction energy is spent on the creation of ball lightning. The same view is taken French astronomer and physicist Mathias, who believed that the energy of the ball lightning - "lightning matter" - four times more than the energy of the same bowl filled with …show more content…
Assure that the burning artificial "thunderstorm matter" in its effect will be little different from the explosion of ball lightning.
The famous Soviet physicist Frenkel, a supporter of the first hypothesis, considered fireball spheroid swirl mixture of particles of dust or fumes from reactive (due to electrical discharge) gases. A ball-vortex, scientists insist, is capable of independent existence for a long period. Indeed, according to the observations of ball lightning occurs mainly in the electric discharge in a dusty air and leaves behind a haze with a sharp odor.
Scientists recently discovered phenomenon of chemiluminescence again aroused interest in the first hypothesis of occurrence of ball lightning. Some researchers argues that ball lightning is not nothing but a chemiluminescent education (Chloe), which is also observed in the dusty air.
One way or another, but this hypothesis, according to which all the energy of the ball lightning is within the system itself, I liked more than others. Maybe because it allows us to consider a fireball energy