Ball Of Lightning Science
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Ball of lightning science. The first page of the pdf of this article appears above. Ball lightning as live science previously reported is a rare and poorly understood weather phenomenon where a colorful glowing orb appears usually during a thunderstorm and appears to. Some nineteenth century reports describe balls that eventually explode and leave. It may be red orange yellow white or blue in colour and is.
Bluish flames that appear to come out of the ground at. Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from a golf ball to a very large beach ball 1 to 100 centimeters or 0 4 inches to 39 inches in diameter. Ball lightning by award winning chinese science fiction author cixin liu is a fast paced audiobook about what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences. This is a pdf only article.
Ball lightning a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. This program is read by feodor chin voice of zenyatta in overwatch. Vol ns 20 issue 491. However a recorded case didn t occur until the 18th century when georg richmann a pioneer in research on electricity was killed by what s believed to have been ball lightning.
Ns 20 issue 491 pp. 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. It usually occurs near the ground during thunderstorms in close association with cloud to ground lightning. Science 01 jul 1892.