LightningPonderer

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Now I'm pretty sure this would go in this part and I sorta have spent a couple hours looking at and typing about ball lightning stuff. Here is what I wrote. Ball lightning is a very interesting anomaly. The first thought that came to my head when I read about it was that, from the descriptions, it was some sort of paranormal activity from watching so many ghost shows. I then keep reading and researching about this subject and read one article about an eyewitness named Graham K. Hubler. He said that he saw the ball lightning hovering a few feet above the ground and that it was no bigger than the size of a tennis ball, it was moving in a path and went under a pavilion and then dropped down to the ground. It started making noises like those of boiling water and hissing. It then came out of the pavilion and went up into the air. He said that it acted like it was following electric field lines and that it had a charge. My theory is that it was caused by charged particles, not charged enough to create a bolt of lightning, transferring positive and negatively charged particles from the ground to the clouds following an electric field line of the Earth and when it fell to the ground under the pavilion it lost most of its connection to the clouds almost stopped transferring charged particles and it made the noises because it was starting to disperse, but then it came out from under the pavilion and rose back up because its transferring became more powerful. I then started researching more about if earths electric field lines or maybe magnetic field lines could have let this follow a certain path and if so what a map of the field lines would look like. If there was a map and it was marked with the areas of where the witnesses saw the ball lightning if it would match up with those field lines giving strength to my theory. That would help give a basis for research on this lightning. What I think would be a good way to try to figure out how to create ball lightning would be to create a long warehouse along one of these field lines and then create a thing for the roof and ground that would be able to duplicate the positively and negatively charged particles of a thunderstorm and adjusted it to a certain voltage so that it wouldn't be able to create a lightning bolt but enough to create a transfer and would then test different frequencies until I got something that looked and acted like ball lightning. If I had placed the warehouse along the field line correctly then it might move along that line which would prove my theory. The main dangerous part of this would be not being able to know what the ball lightning would do once it dispersed because ball lightning can either just disappear or exploded causing much damage. If I were able to do this then I would open up a whole new door into how lightning works since the warehouse would also be able to create and artificial lightning storm for observance. This warehouse could bring a whole new era to lightning research and would be able to help our understanding of lightning. Also since lightning is a plasma the warehouse would be able to be used for plasma research, if a way was found to create a continuous stream of lightning of high or low frequency. Most likely it would be a lower frequency like I suspect the ball lightning to be since there was no reports of bolts of lightning shooting from the ball. This could also be a whole new anomaly that is not lightning at all but just another form of electricity since it lasts much longer than regular lightning. If it could be captured in nature then it might be able to be absorbed for energy use in cities and towns. These are all theories, but theories are what facts come from. Without theories then there would be no new facts and no way to be able to tell what certain things do under certain circumstances. Upon more research I had started to wonder in what direction the ball lightning was traveling and which hemisphere it was in. Would it travel north and towards the Northern Magnetic Pole in the northern hemisphere and vice-versa?