Let me enlighten those of you who have not yet heard of ball lightning. Ball lightning is one of those great scientific enigmas that bewilders the most profound scientists. There are countless characteristics of ball lightning, so it's hard for me to describe it in a few words. In essence it is a floating spherical colored translucent-like ball that moves along the earth surface for a short period of time. .
Most people assume that ball lightning occurs during or after a thunderstorm. In some cases that is correct, but ball lightning has also been known to spontaneously transpire without the appearance of a thunderstorm. Nearly seventy percent of all ball lightning eyewitness accounts have been seen right after a lightning strike. There have also been several reports stating that ball lighting emanated from tornadoes and hurricanes. Let it be noted that during tornadoes and hurricanes, the electric fields are exceedingly high . Without any information on the occurrences of ball lighting, people would naturally assume that ball lighting would occur from the appearance of an electrical storm. But what throws their assumption off is the fact that ball lighting has been noted to occur without the detection of an electrical storm. It is just one of the many reasons that make the scientists pull their hair out. .
There are no distinct characteristics of ball lightning. The shapes of ball lightning range from spherical to oval, rectangular to cylindered, coned to dumb-belled. The most common shape is of course spherical (hence the name), and the others are very rare. The size factor of ball lightning is astonishing! It ranges from two centimeter to ten meters in diameter, with the average being around twenty centimeters . Ball lightning has been observed in all colors of the rainbow; however the most common colors are red, orange and yellow . Some of these balls are blindingly bright, whereas others have virtually no illumination and appear to have a grayish color with an average brightness of a 100-watt light bulb1.
Thus, the lightning is created. ... There are several types of lightning. They may be ball-shaped and float through the air or roll around on the ground. The names of the different lightning are: heat lightning, bead and rocket lightning, ribbon lightning, and ball lightning. Thunder is what comes after lightning. ...
"After he sent the sun to the heavens, the light that was remaining he gathered into a ball, and threw it at the darkness and made night with moon and stars." Next, "God created many things such as lightning, thunder, rain, grass, flowers, rivers, sea, birds, beasts, forests, and woods." ...
Since most of us have Southern backgrounds, the Winter Olympics are entertaining to us because we get to see people in extremely cold settings move at lightning speed. ... An objective must be something like getting from one place to another before everyone else, putting a ball in a basket or wearing ugly clothes and hitting a little white ball across a huge cow pasture with various sticks until it goes into a hole. ...
Lily Yip, a table tennis player, is small and petite, but her size is efficient in allowing her to react quickly to the direction of the table tennis ball. ... At the same time, Joyner - Kersee's stance can represent the Greek God Zeus preparing to throw a lightning bolt. ...
"Spring Fun" That day had been like any other. I was killing time with my friends. We had just finished eating and were off playing hide and go seek. Little did we know, some of us would never find ourselves again. After the explosion, everything else seemed to be muted, like I had been thrown int...
Violet looked up and saw an contraption at the top of the tent, She studied it for a couple minutes and then said that it was to make lightning or a mysterious glare while she fortune tells. They all realized that the fortune telling was not all fake but not all real because she had the facts but they just weren't coming out of the crystal ball. ...
Ancient Romans named the planet after the Roman god, Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology) and the astronomical symbol (see Figure 1) is a representation of the lightning bolt carried by Zeus (Crystal). ... Jupiter is a ball of dense gas and has no solid surface. ...
