Title :
Transport and collapse of micro ball lightning
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Nucl. Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Curious behavior of micro Ball Lightning (BL) which was artificially generated during Underwater Spark Discharges (USD) will be presented. The micro BL was an atomic cluster in a special state, called an "itonic" cluster. Its electrons were assumed to be interconnected with each other so that the cluster could exist for a moment as a stable body. The bonding of the electrons was so strong that nuclear reactions could be induced. The most significant reaction was nuclear collapse, called Electro-Nuclear Collapse (ENC), from which light elements such as carbon could be regenerated as curious thin film or tube like products. The micro BL was generated on a tip bottom of a plate anode of copper, shaped like a knife (about 5 mm wide). It was driven upward by the electrical potential, during which various kinds of traces were deposited on the copper plate: transport of micro BL, the generation of carbon films, and rotational eruption, called micro tornado. The mechanisms of the curious phenomena will be explained by the Nattoh model (1999).
Keywords :
discharges (electric); ionisation; lightning; sparks; Nattoh model; atomic cluster; carbon film generation; copper plate; electrical potential; electro-nuclear collapse; electron bonding; interconnected electrons; itonic cluster; light elements; micro ball lightning collapse; micro ball lightning transport; micro tornado; nuclear collapse; nuclear reactions; plate anode; rotational eruption; thin film; tip bottom; tube like products; underwater spark discharges; Anodes; Bonding; Carbon; Chemical elements; Copper; Electrons; Lightning; Nuclear power generation; Sparks; Transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science, 2000. ICOPS 2000. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 27th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5982-8
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2000.854996