Decaying dark energy, originating from our Sun, all curled up in a ball in those extra dimensions of space.
On Tuesday, August 27, 2013, wrote: > It's interesting to note that the still unexplained and controversial > phenomenon of ball lightning is derided as mass delusion, e.g., -- > > Is Ball Lightning Just a Shared Hallucination? > > http://www.universetoday.com/64560/is-ball-lightning-just-a-shared-hallucination/ > > - despite that probable ball lightning has also deluded video cams, e.g., > > "UFO" Shoots Missile with beams - Vandenberg Air Force Base > UFO Shoots Missile with beams - Vandenberg Air Force > Base<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4FhJ3mjrE> > > Challenging established orthodoxy endangers reputation, career, income, ... > > This recent (open source) paper -- > > Interrelation between ball lightning and optically induced forces > http://iopscience.iop.org/1402-4896/88/3/035402 > > -- begins with the observation - > > "The phenomenon of ball lightning (BL) remains unresolved > up to the present moment. No satisfactory explanation of > enigmatic natural phenomena (observed and examined by > scientists for many centuries) has been found up to now. > More than 200 different BL theories are known, and their > systematization and classification have been carried out. > However, neither of them can even approximately explain the > enigmatic and intriguing behavior of BLs, which to a certain > degree reminds one of the behavior of some highly organized > matter. Physicists cannot imagine an object, submitting to > conventional physical laws, whose properties coincide with > BL properties. This is something perfectly new." > > It seems that the same laws of social psychology are operating > to discourage investigations of BL and LENR. > > BTW, the following paper -- > > Tracks of Ball Lightning in Apparatus? > J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 2 (2009) 13–32 > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LewisEtracksofba.pdf > > - speculates that micro-BL might explain the topography of > pock-marked, streaked, ..., metal surfaces seen in LENR. > > Any opinions on the reality of ball lightning? > > -- Lou Pagnucco > > >
