Judging size is always a problem, but that does look to be of the big
and far away variety. I saw BL many years ago when it appeared to be
small (1 metre?) and closer, and have had a long standing interest in BL
as a result. I have seen videos of other BL where it splits. In other
cases the daughters appear to be stable for a reasonable time, unlike in
this video.
fwiw I tend to think that some kind of fusion/LENR must underlie BL, but
I have yet to find any kind of hypothesis that makes sense.
I recently came across the remarkable work of John Trowbridge in the
early 1900s on lightning, including some impressive attempts at
reproducing lightning in the lab.
You can download the paper from
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88954#page/210/mode/1up
but it is a bit cumbersome, so I have posted the resultant pdf on the
Warwick file server
https://files.warwick.ac.uk/ndyer/files/Water/Trowbridge+1907.pdf
There is a description of what may be the small and nearby version of
ball lightning on page 203, followed by a passing note on how they
almost killed one of their lab janitors.
Nigel
On 30/01/2012 12:50, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:38 AM, William Beaty<[email protected]> wrote:
Russian YouTube shows a video film of airborne BL lasting 40+ seconds during
thunderstorm at:
<http://rutube.ru/tracks/3787124.html?v=f37c6f3d5dd780052a6bca48c0825685>
http://rutube.ru/tracks/3787124.html?v=f37c6f3d5dd780052a6bca48c0825685
The event occurs at the 4:30 point into the vid. One of the best
examples of BL I have seen.
T
