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Ball Lightning - An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000)
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Ball Lightning - An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000)
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Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain.
Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame
unquenched, Th'unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged
and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with
redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould'ring pine
Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless
group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, "The Seasons" (1727)
have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I
published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received
worldwide publicity and I consequently many people wrote to me with
accounts of their own experiences. Within a very short time, I had
accumulated about 200 firsthand accounts, and the file has
continued to grow steadily since then. Several things impressed me.
Few of those who wrote to me had any detailed foreknowledge of ball
lightning at the time of their observation. Nonetheless, once
reports of other phenomena such as St. Elmo's fire had been
eliminated, the remaining descriptions were remarkably consistent.
Furthermore, nearly all who contacted me were keen to have an
explanation of what they had seen and seemed entirely sincere.
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