Re: Ball Lightning from high-amp discharge

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This brings up an interesting epistemological question.Is it possible 
to RE-create something in a laboratory if you don't know what IT is 
to start with?

Matt D.
part-time insomniac "

   You may be able to create something which looks like the reports 
of something but it isn't obvious how you can ever know you're 
right.  A friend of mine created small fireballs [ball lightning?] by 
hooking rubber insulated wire to the top terminal of his TC and 
pulling the rubber off the end a bit so the streamer passed through 
the rubber and set it on fire.  I think others here have done the 
same thing or at least something similar.

Ed