______________________________________________________________________________ | File Name : BALLITE1.ASC | Online Date : 05/22/95 | | Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : ENERGY | | From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 | | A FREE Alternative Sciences BBS sponsored by Vanguard Sciences | | KeelyNet * PO BOX 870716 * Mesquite, Texas * USA * 75187 | | Voice/FAX : (214) 324-8741 InterNet - keelynet@ix.netcom.com | | WWW sites - http://www.eskimo.com/~billb & http://www.protree.com | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| The following messages relate to the formation of small ball lightning globes. It is the first time I've seen anything about this phenomenon since we first saw it back in 1988, while doing a lightning show (ZAP-DALLAS). While bolts of electricity stream off the arms, I had noticed small yellowish globes about 1/4" in diameter which appeared above the skin and flowed with the streaming electricity. This only occurred around 800,000 Volts or higher. Since sodium fluoresces yellowish orange, it seemed likely these small spheres originated from salt. Part of the show required a saturated salt spray to be sprayed onto the feet and a metal plate to enhance conductivity. Distilled water was sprayed on the head to keep the hair from catching on fire. In an attempt to track the source of the spheres down, we took great pains that no salt water was allowed anywhere near the arms. It did not matter, as the spheres still appeared. We finally concluded it must be body salts that were being carried to the surface of the skin due to iontophoresis. This is probably not the final answer, but is the closest we could get to an explanation. .GIF images are available as ZAP1, ZAP2 AND ZAP3. We could never get a picture of the spheres because of lighting and proximity problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: edward@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Edward Lewis) Subject: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found! Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 01:16:12 GMT Lines: 112 alt.sci.physics.new-theories:14533 (c) 1994 by Edward Lewis All Rights Reserved December 22, 1994 I have been posting articles about tiny ball lightning and plasmoids for a while now. In a letter to the Editor in the December, 1994 issue of FUSION TECHNOLOGY, Matsumoto reports about the observation of tiny ball lightning in several cold fusion experiments, and he suggests that people use nuclear emulsions. He's written manuscripts about tiny ball lightning that are produced by discharge apparatus also. Sufficient evidence of the production of things that can be called "plasmoids" or tiny ball lightning is the many kinds of plasmoid traces that Matsumoto has produced, and the EB-filament paper by Nardi and Bostick et al.: V. Nardi, W. H. Bostick, J. Feugeas, and W. Prior, "Internal Structure of ELectron-Beam Filaments," Physical Review A, 22, no. 5, 2211 (November, 1980). This is substantial proof, in my opinion. Some of the ring traces are very similar, and some of the other traces are similar too. I'd also like to suggest that people use nuclear emulsions awith various kinds of cold fusion and plasmoid experiments. Many of the plasmoids produced by electrolysis and discharge are the same. And people have known for a long time that plasmoids and discharges are associated with neutron production. They are the locus of neutron production. (c) 1994 by Edward Lewis All Rights Reserved I've posted versions of this article several times on this newsgroup since December of 1993; and I've posted several articles about plasmoids and cold fusion on this newsgroup since January of 1993. If anyone wants to reproduce or resend this article, get my permission first. PLASMOIDS AND COLD FUSION W. Bostick produced that which he called plasmoids by discharging through electrodes. Bostick wrote a paper that was titled "Plasmoids" that was published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in 1957(1). He may have been the first to apply this term to this phenomena. According to Peratt, Bostick coined the term In this paper, he had already began to tell others about his speculation that galaxies and the phenomena he produced were similar. He compared the shapes and the travel of these things. He also speculated a little about the identity of "particles." He shows pictures of different kinds of plasmoid shapes in the article and related these to different kinds of shapes of galaxies. Many people including Bostick, Alfven who is a physics Nobel Prize winner, Peratt and Lerner have developed similar astronomical theories that model the universe as plasmoids and that can be said to be derivations or summarizations of the experimental work of W. Bostick and others. It has become evident that atoms can be defined as plasmoids, especially as according to the phenomena produced by Ken Shoulders. It seems that there are many different kinds of plasmoid phenomena. The EVs that Ken Shoulders produced and ball lightning may be classified as kinds of this general phenomena. There is evidence that both plasmoids and ball lightning are associated with neutrons, radioactivity, production of elements, and excess radiation, and that they are a locus of this. Based on the phenomena that Matsumoto produced, the traces, the pictures and descriptions of electrodes, the pictures of stationary BL and corona-like phenomena, the visible BL-like phenomena that he reports, and the sparks that he observed that left traces like those produced during electrolysis and discharge, one may categorize CF phenomena as tiny ball-lightning or plasmoids. Important evidence is the holes and trails on and in emulsions and electrodes that Matsumoto produced by discharging and electrolysis, the holes in electrodes that Liaw et al. produced, the holes in electrodes that others produced, the empty areas in electrodes that are shaped liked grains that Matsumoto and Silver et al. produced and the half-empty grains that Matsumoto produced, and the holes and tunnels and trails on and in electrodes that Silver produced. The tunnels, round holes, and trail-like marks are similar to those that are produced by ball lightning phenomena, though ball lightning are associated with bigger effects. These tunnels, round holes, and trail- like marks are also similar to those produced by the EV phenomena that K. Shoulders produced. Silver and his co-authors who published a paper in the December, 1993 issue of FUSION TECHNOLOGY have reproduced the tunnels, holes, and trail-like markings in metals that Matsumoto produced. These tunnels, holes, and trail-marks are evidence of the conversion and change of materials. Important evidence that both CF phenomena and substance in general are plasmoid phenomena is Matsumoto's experience of the production of electricity by apparatus. I suspect that plasmoid phenomena such as electrodes and other materials may convert to be bigger plasmoids and light and electricity. EVs and ball lightning are known to convert to light and electricity. I think that all substance can be identified as plasmoid phenomena. I suspect that the round holes in electrodes that Matsumoto produced and the round holes and tunnels that Silver produced are due to the boring of BL-like phenomena -- the substance was converted to light, electricity or other kinds of plasmoids, I suspect. And I suspect that the grain-shaped voids or pits that they produced is evidence of the conversion of the grain to light or electricity or of the production of other kinds of plasmoids, though there may also be the distortion of the grains or the dislocation of grains by separation. Some plasmoids are apparently able to travel through materials, even if the plasmoids are very big. The plasmoids that Matsumoto has produced does this, and this is major evidence to support my deductions. Matsumoto has also shown pictures of sectioned electrodes with what seem to me to be trail- like tracks, as if tiny BL-like phenomena traveled inside and left tracks. Many other anomalous phenomena can be described as plasmoid phenomena. For example, superconductivity seem to be similar to the phenomena of ball lightning traveling though materials such as ceramics and glass without leaving holes or visible effects, yet ball lightning may convert to an electrical surge after touching a wire or it may convert to a bolt of lightning. Also, sonoluminescence seems to be a phenomena of the water converting to light and perhaps electricity. 1) W. Bostick, "Plasmoids," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 197, 87 (October 1957). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Visor@globalcom.net Subject: Re: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found! Date: Mon, 08 May 95 22:21:47 PDT Organization: GlobalCom Lines: 27 > I have been posting articles about tiny ball lightning and plasmoids for a while now. In a letter to the Editor in the December, 1994 issue of FUSION TECHNOLOGY, Matsumoto reports about the observation of tiny ball lightning in several cold fusion experiments, >text removed< You may be interested in an experiment that I conducted in 1982. While stimulating water vapor (H 2 O) with a high voltage source I witnessed something that may be relevant to your post. I called it the production of active plasma, but you may call it tiny ball lighting. The water vapor was in a pyrex 1000ml beaker into which electrodes were installed. Moments after the power was introduced a very bright -ball- of plasma appeared in the beaker. This ball then adhered to the inside wall of the beaker. Within seconds this -ball-melted a tiny pinhole at the point of contact. The -ball- then (I guess oozed is a good word) through this tiny hole. The -ball-followed a spiral path around the room (I dove for the floor by the way) and after about 70 seconds disapeared. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Chris Morriss Subject: Re: Tiny Ball Lightning have been found! Date: 10 May 1995 21:02:30 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Lines: 18 The recent miniature ball lightning discussion took me back to my early teens when I was an enthusiastic but illegal pirate radio operator together with a few of my friends. One of the things we used to try to do was to develop antenna tuning units that would manage to get very short lengths of wire to act as a transmitting antenna. The RF voltages on the antenna were very high and I often got very painful RF arcs to the skin of my hand, accompanied by the unmistakable smell of roast human! The interesting thing is that 2 or 3 times when I got an RF arc to a piece of surrounding metalwork I saw a miniature spherical orange/yellow ball detach itself from the arc and travel in a zig-zag path for perhaps a couple of seconds. As it travelled it made a sizzling noise with small 'firework sparkler' type bits coming out of it. The ball could only have been 1 or 2mm in diameter. I guess these things might also have been of the same form as ball lightning. Has anybody else noticed anything like this? -- Chris Morriss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------