Is the rare phenomenon known as ball lightning real or just a myth?
Yes… there are a few different kinds, not all are understood… I don’t remember how it works in detail, but… In 1990 or so, the TCBA (Tesla Coil Builder Association) magazine about how to make it with two Tesla coils, and my best guess about how it worked was that when the lightning from a lower frequency one touched the lightning from the higher frequency one, there is so much more energy in the low frequency that has nowhere to go so it discharges at the intersection of sparks, and the coils’ fields keep it alive, supposedly making many of them at once, which have been photographed going through glass windows. Tesla described making them but he used so much power that they tended to be attracted to his coils and would go bang on the wires and burn them, so they were a nuisance caused maybe by bad tuning of the coil. This ball lightning is air that is lighting up like neon because of the lightning, and electricity is moving around in it under the influence of the electric field,
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