I'm a skeptic about a lot of things (although that may seem strange to
some people...), and this mental explanation of ball lightning just
doesn't hold... well... its *charge* for me.
Descriptions I've read of the phenomenon include movements and
activities of ball lightning that incorporate detailed physical features
of the surroundings (e.g., going in or out of windows, exploding with
noise, etc.) and such things then must also be explained away. A modest
flourishing of Occam's Razor should be enough to show the shortcomings
of the idea.
I prefer a more physics-exotic idea: that ball lightning represents a
form of large-scale quantum behavior along the lines of a semi-stable
Bose-Einstein condensate at large scale, one that comprises a kind of
"monster electron" that eventually dissipates as it loses its binding
energy to its surroundings. Now THAT'S "going there" science-style!
Dana
On 5/12/2010 8:36 AM, Jason Olshefsky wrote:
On May 12, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Eric Scoles wrote:
The applications for Big Brother / North Korea style interrogation
are obvious.
Funny you go there ... I (of _all_ people; see also: everything I do
on Facebook) was thinking much less nefarious purposes like the idea
of angels, miracles, gods, seeing-is-believing, etc.
--- Jason Olshefsky
http://JayceLand.com
http://JayceLand.com/blog
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