A new Concept of Ball Lightning

2008/11/28 by Levan N. Tsintsadze, Tsintsadze, Levan N.
Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #physics.ao-ph #physics.plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0811.4640

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Abstract

We suggest that the ball lightning (BL) is a weakly ionized gas, in which the electromagnetic radiation can be accumulated through the Bose-Einstein condensation and/or the photon trapping in the plasma density well. We derive the set of equations describing the stability of BL, and show that the BL moving along charged surface becomes unstable. Eventually the instability leads to explosion of BL and release of energy of the trapped photons and/or the Bose-Einstein condensate.

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