Ball Lightning Nikola Tesla
Tesla s setup and successfully generated ball lightnings of 1 2 centimeters diameter.
Ball lightning nikola tesla. Where tesla used two secondary coils in his colorado springs tr. Tesla s thoughts on ball lightning production tesla became familiar with the destructive characteristics of fireballs in his experiments at colorado springs in 1899. Plasma filaments extend from the inner electrode to the outer glass insulator giving the. Nikola tesla was the first person known to have recreated a ball lightning like charge in the lab in 1904.
The phenomenon of ball lightning has been a fascination over the centuries but remains a mysterious riddle to scientists partly due to its transient and elusive nature. Their setup wasn t identical to tesla s. As soon as they approach sufficiently close the electric potential between them becomes so terrific that. Making ball lightning to order.
He produced them quite by accident and saw them more than once explode and shatter his tall mast and also destroy apparatus within his laboratory. In the late 1980s kenneth and james corum duplicated n. When voltage is applied a plasma is formed within the container. Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea sized to several meters in diameter though usually associated with thunderstorms the phenomenon is said to last considerably longer than the split second flash of a lightning bolt.
A plasma globe or plasma lamp also called plasma ball dome sphere tube or orb depending on shape is a clear glass container filled with a mixture of various noble gases with a high voltage electrode in the center of the container. Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave. In the hundred years since then only a few researchers have successfully repeated tesla. Those fireballs measured about an inch and a half in diameter and persisted even after his apparatus was turned off.
It is the corums unique reinterpretation of tesla s 1899. Though their production was accidental it was also repeatable. Physicist nikola tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of ball lightning ball lightning if it exists at all is an electrical discharge usually appearing in spherical shape that.