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Ball Lightning: A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity 2019 ed. [Pehme köide]

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  • ISBN-10: 3030207854
  • ISBN-13: 9783030207854
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 205 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x155 mm, kaal: 454 g, 49 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white, 1 Paperback / softback
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Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their nature is still unknown. In this book, well documented cases of ball lightning are described and used to unravel some aspects of this mysterious form of atmospheric electricity. Throughout the book, the author discusses the various facets of the problem in an accessible but rigorous style, delivering a readable and informative text that will captivate the curious reader. He finally reaches the surprising conclusion that the solution to this puzzle may have been hidden in plain sight for many years. 

A foreword by Earle Williams, leading lightning researcher at MIT, introduces the book.



Arvustused

This very readable and informative work is well constructed . At the end of each chapter Boerner gives a bullet-point summary of all the important points discussed in that chapter; this I found invaluable. Anyone with a background in physics and mathematics will easily be able to follow Boerners informative text. I will go as far as saying anyone with a curious mind, even without the background knowledge, will find it difficult to put this book down. (Graham Denye, Weather, June 8, 2021)

1 Introduction
1(2)
2 Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales
3(6)
Some Reports to Whet Your Appetite
3(2)
Did They Really See Ball Lightning or Was It Something Else?
5(3)
Summary
8(1)
3 The Search for Photographic Evidence
9(12)
Summary
19(2)
4 A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?
21(8)
Scientific Investigation and the Problem with BL
21(6)
Wielding Occam's Razor
27(1)
Summary
28(1)
5 Organizing and Analyzing the Observations
29(22)
Early Attempts
29(1)
Brands Book of 1923
30(1)
Singers and Barry's Books (1971 and 1980)
31(1)
Stenhoff's Book (1999)
32(1)
Books from Russian Researchers
32(1)
Compilations of BL Observations
33(2)
Reported Characteristics of Ball Lightning
35(2)
Observations of BL Creation
37(1)
BL and Winter Thunderstorms
38(2)
BL Energy Content and Energy Source
40(3)
Passage of BL Through Dielectric Objects
43(5)
BL Creation and Existence in Modern Aircraft
48(1)
Summary
48(3)
6 Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers
51(6)
Summary
56(1)
7 Thunderstorms and Lightning
57(26)
How Thunderstorms Power the Electric Machine
57(3)
The Members of the Lightning Family
60(2)
CV of a Typical--CG Lightning Stroke
62(6)
Positive CG Lightning
68(2)
Other Types of Lightning
70(4)
Luminous Events in the Upper Atmosphere
74(2)
Lightning Location Systems
76(4)
Summary
80(3)
8 BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production
83(12)
Neuruppin 1994 (Case 1)
84(4)
Amiens 1884 (Case 5)
88(1)
Lamington 1922 (Case 3)
89(2)
Santa Maria 1902 (Case 4)
91(1)
Martinique 1891 (Brand Case 103)
92(1)
Summary
93(2)
9 The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning
95(4)
Summary
98(1)
10 Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View
99(10)
History of BL Skepticism
99(1)
Humphreys
100(1)
Campbell
101(1)
Berger
102(1)
Stimulation of the Brain: Phosphenes and Friends
103(3)
The "Null" Hypothesis
106(2)
Summary
108(1)
11 Ball Lightning Theories
109(18)
Status of Ball Lightning Theories
109(1)
Properties of Ball Lightning
110(1)
Classes of Models
111(1)
Chemical Models
111(1)
Electrical Discharge Models
112(1)
Plasma Structure Models
112(1)
Microwave Bubble Models
113(4)
Electromagnetic Interference Models
117(1)
The Only Theory Remaining
117(8)
Summary
125(2)
12 BL Experiments
127(24)
How to Make Localized Electromagnetic Structures
128(12)
Accidental BL Experiments
140(4)
Planned Experiments
144(5)
Summary
149(2)
13 Wrapping It All Up
151(4)
Odds and Ends
152(3)
Appendix
155(46)
Case 1 Neuruppin 1994
155(15)
Geographical and Meteorological Situation
155(1)
The Neuruppin Events
156(5)
Witness Reports
161(9)
Case 2 Melbourne 2002 by Ern Mainka
170(7)
Ern's Original Account
170(3)
Individual Eyewitness Accounts
173(4)
Case 3 Lamington, Queensland 1922
177(1)
Case 4 Santa Maria 1902
178(1)
Case 5 Amiens 1884, Brand Case 55
179(3)
Case 5 Tissey 1912 Brand Case 184
182(1)
Case 6 Arnsberg 1868 Brand Case 30
183(1)
Case 7 Loeb's Account
184(1)
Case 8 From Humphreys (1936)
185(1)
Case 9 Neustadt Multiple Ball Lightning Case (Wittmann)
186(1)
Case 10 Hahnenklee Brand Case 192
187(1)
Case 11 Sagan Page 181 (Sagan, 2004)
188(1)
Case 12 Turner (1998)
189(2)
Case 13 Rakov/Uman (2003) 20.2. Outdoors in Australia
191(1)
Case 14 Cavendish Laboratory, Extreme Weather: Forty Years of Tornado and Storm Research
191(1)
Case 15 2017 in Paignton, Devon
192(1)
Case 16 Rakov/Uman (2003), 20.2.4. Indoors in Nebraska
193(1)
Case 17 Rakov/Uman (2003), 20.2.5. Indoors in Virginia
194(1)
Case 18 Rakov/Uman (2003) 20.2.11. From a Radio Transmitter Operator
195(1)
Case 19 Jennison
196(1)
Case 20 "Tub of Water Case" (To the Editor of the "Daily Mail")
196(1)
Case 21 From McNally (1966), Observation No. 46
197(1)
Case 22 From McNally (1966), Observation No. 49
197(1)
Case 23 From McNally (1966), Observation No. 169
197(1)
Case 24 From McNally (1966), Observation No. 5
198(1)
Case 25 Bead Lightning, Own Observation
198(1)
Case 26 Ball Lightning Over Berlin
199(2)
References 201
Herbert Boerner obtained his PhD for experimental work in High Energy Physics from Bonn University in 1981. After postdoc positions at KEK in Japan and CERN in Geneva he joined Philips research in 1986, first working in the Hamburg laboratory, and from 1995 on in the Aachen laboratory. From this year until his retirement in 2012 he worked on the physics and engineering of organic light emitting diodes (OLED).