Can spherical lightning hit people?

This is a very strange lightning phenomenon. Its shape is generally the size of a tennis ball, and its diameter can reach tens to hundreds of meters.

It usually appears in bad weather, but the terrible thing is that spherical lightning seems to be quite "human" and it will follow you. It is difficult for you to avoid its "tracking". Spherical lightning is pervasive, and it can sneak into the house from the chimney. Its appearance will sometimes be a false alarm, but sometimes it will create disaster in an instant.

Graham K. Hoelbe, a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, USA, once experienced spherical lightning. He recalled, "I met ball lightning when I was 16 years old. To avoid the thunderstorm, I hid in a small pavilion in the park. Suddenly, I saw a tennis ball hovering around me, and then it rolled on the ground not far from me and often bounced off the ground. It has been hissing all the time, just like the sound when boiling water ... "

This is a ball that can float and shine in the air.

John abraham, a professor of chemistry at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, said that at present, there are nearly 10000 written reports about the appearance of spherical lightning in the world.

According to witnesses, this is a ball that can float and shine in the air. Its appearance is often accompanied by thunderstorms, but it is not clear whether spherical lightning also appears in other natural phenomena. It also floats and bounces on the ground, and its movement is not affected by the wind and the gravity of the earth.

The average voltage of each ball lightning is 100 volts. It is reported that it can even light curtains through glass windows. Generally, the duration of spherical lightning is only about 10 second, and the brightness gradually weakens or suddenly disappears in a violent small explosion.

Plasma clouds are composed of charged particles.

Its appearance will also bring fatal disasters. According to records, in 1753, George Richman, a Russian pioneer electrical researcher, was killed by ball lightning in the lightning rod experiment.

How is spherical lightning formed? This is a mystery that scientists have been trying to solve for hundreds of years. At present, there are two explanations for the formation of spherical lightning. The first view is that plasma is the "mastermind" of the formation of spherical lightning.

Plasma clouds are composed of charged particles, which can be recombined into luminous and charged atoms. The energy of plasma cloud formation comes from what people often say is a bolt from the blue, and spherical lightning is also accompanied by the formation of plasma cloud.

John abraham of Canterbury University agrees with the second view. He said, "Generally speaking, ball lightning is an electric energy body, in which a small part of electric energy is converted into chemical energy and stored in particles."

Formation process of spherical lightning

At present, the laboratory project of manufacturing spherical lightning is being actively carried out, which will be based on the second viewpoint theory and corresponding technical support.

Hoelbe of the United States Naval Research Laboratory is very interested in this experiment, and he hopes that the technical process of making spherical lightning can be made public. He said, "A camera should be placed in the experiment to record the formation process of spherical lightning. These recorded videos are very beneficial to the study of spherical lightning. "

Nature is really amazing, giving birth to such strange things. However, although spherical lightning is a wonder of nature, its flexibility will also bring disaster to mankind, so we should strengthen preventive measures.