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Originally posted by lost_shaman
Originally posted by BlindSkeptic
Originally posted by lost_shaman
I'm very familiar with Lightning! I'm not describing an electrical event.
Read the description of ball lightning and you will see that it is very similar to your experience. Ball Lightning does not look anything like normal lightning and is believed to be a sphere of plasma. It can appear for over a minute and moves around the sky erratically, suddenly dissapearing.
Plasma? as in hot gas . Hot gas expands it wouldn't concentrate, thats why you hear thunder after lightning strikes.
More and more scientists are beginning to accept the existence of ball lightning as a true electrical phenomenon. In fact, scientists at the Edinburgh University Department of Meteorology had their own brush with ball lightning when one morning, after a storm, they arrived at their offices and found a two and one half inch round hole, with smooth edges, in the window. Since the glass was fused, it is believed it was melted away by the passage of ball lightning.
Ball lightning lasts only a couple of seconds, or up to a minute, then it disappears by either exploding or dissipating. Exactly what it is is still unknown, but some scientists believe it is a sphere of plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter besides, liquid, solid and gas. It is hot, electrically charged and fluid-like. While it exists in abundance in the universe inside stars it is usually not found on Earth except at the heart of a nuclear explosion. How it might exist as a free-floating bubble under normal conditions is unknown.