Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter...

Ball Lightning (Chinese: 球状闪电) is a hard science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin, also considered a prequel to The Three-Body Problem. The original...

heard; dry lightning, which can cause forest fires; and ball lightning, which is rarely observed scientifically. Humans have deified lightning for millennia...

thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes, which last only a fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds. Ball lightning has been described...

folklore, although the description for santelmo is more similar to ball lightning than St. Elmo's fire. There are various indigenous names for santelmo...

U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment, as a possible cause for ball lightning (Ashby & Whitehead 1971). They monitored the sky with gamma-ray detection...

Ball Lightning (Czech: Kulový blesk) is a 1979 Czechoslovak comedy film. The screenplay was written by Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Podskalský...

A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has...

ball lightning could account for spontaneous human combustion. "This is circumstantial only, but the charring of human limbs seen in a number of ball...

Remembrance of Earth's Past, Liu's novels include Supernova Era and Ball Lightning. When not otherwise busy, Liu wrote 3000–5000 words a day; each of his...

Plasma ball may refer to: Plasma globe, a man-made, ball-shaped plasma device Ball lightning, a natural phenomenon Star, a sphere of plasma held together...

the late 1960s onwards Tuck took a keen interest in the phenomenon of ball lightning, probably because of the connection between plasmas and their role in...

Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning, magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere, and objects in cometary tails...

fly about as a ball of lightning (in fact, the creature may be an attempt to explain the phenomenon of lightning, such as ball lightning). Its cry sounds...

The Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz (German for "ball lightning") was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun developed during World War II. By the end of the...

Finkelstein, David; Powell, James R. (1970). "Ball Lightning: Less well known than stroke lightning, ball lightning is about as frequent and can be simulated...

lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike...

hallucinations. David Turner, a retired physical chemist, suggested that ball lightning could cause inanimate objects to move erratically. Joe Nickell of the...

He died by electrocution in St. Petersburg when struck by apparent ball lightning produced by an experiment attempting to ground the electrical discharge...

October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm. An afternoon service was taking place...

some of the descriptions of foo fighters closely resemble those of ball lightning. During April 1945, the U.S. Navy began to experiment on visual illusions...

Trisolaris. The books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy are: Ball Lightning, a 2004 novel by Liu Cixin, set earlier in the same universe. The Redemption...

lights. Magnetophosphenes have been proposed as an explanation for ball lightning. "ReviseMRI.com : Magnetophosphenes". Weintraub MI, Khoury A, Cole SP...

Lightning sphere may refer to: Ball lightning, a controversial atmospheric electrical phenomenon Plasma globe, a decorative electrical device using high...

participants. David Turner, a retired physical chemist, suggested that ball lightning might cause the "spooky movement of objects blamed on poltergeists."...

(1989) The Devil's Bricks (魔鬼积木) (2002) Supernova Era (超新星纪元) (2003) Ball Lightning (球状闪电) (2004) The Remembrance of Earth's Past (地球往事) trilogy: The Three-Body...

activity. Other types may be due to combustion of flammable gases, ball lightning, meteors, torches and other human-made fires, the misperception of human...

UFO sceptics have described the incident as being caused by either ball lightning or a severe electrical storm. On the evening of November 2, 1957, two...

Light ball may refer to: Ball lightning Flare This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Light ball. If an internal link led you...

very efficient burn, accompanied by nano-explosions, and sometimes by ball-lightning-like plasmoids with, for example, a diameter of 0.1–0.8 m, a velocity...