Ball Lightning As a Messenger from a New World of Circulating Light / V. P. Torchigin and A. V. Torchigin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torchigin, V. P., author.

Torchigin, A. V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ball lightning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book shows that ball lightning has nothing to do with electricity at all; it is a bubble where ordinary white light circulates in the bubble's shell in all possible directions. Such a bubble of light is a completely new, previously unknown object, consisting mainly of light, which determines its anomalous behaviour. Such anomalous behaviour coincides in detail with the mysterious and paradoxical behaviour of natural ball lightning. This book argues that natural ball lightning is an experimental sample which confirms this theory. In the book, the necessary conditions for the stability of the bubble of light and the physical laws that ensure its stability are given, making it possible to determine its unique physical parameters. The book is based on over 30 scientific articles published in leading international journals since 2003.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One

The momentum of a wave of arbitrary physical nature

The momentum of an electromagnetic wave derived from the laws of electrostatics

The momentum of light derived from the geometric optics

The momentum of light derived from the Maxwell stress tensor

Propagation of light in an inhomogeneous optical medium

Concluding remarks

Chapter Two

Modified Balazs thought experiment

Another interpretation of the Balazs thought experiment

Forces produced by an arbitrary continuous travelling wave

Capturing a medium by an electromagnetic wave

Chapter Three

What is common between the parameters of waves of various types

New types of forces produced by waves of various types

Comparison with the alternative approach based on the Lorentz law

Optically induced forces responsible for mysterious ball lightning behavior

Chapter Four

Electrostriction pressure in liquids and solids

Electrostriction pressure in gases

Electromagnetic striction pressure in liquids and solids

Electromagnetic striction pressure in gases

Centrifugal pressure produced by the circulating wave

Separation of gases in a field of circulating light

Chapter Five

Steady states and stability of a soap bubble

Steady states and stability of an inflated child's ball

Steady states and stability of ball lightning

Conclusion

Chapter Six

The pressure of the compressed air in the shell of the ball light

The energy density of the compressed air in the shell of the ball light

The energy density of the circulating light of the ball light

Energy stored in ball light

The volume of ball light

Mass of ball light

The external force applied to ball light.

The lifetime of ball light

Electrical strength of the compressed air

Deformability of a spherical shape of a ball light

Possible speed of ball light

Chapter Seven

Arising of ball lights at strikes of conventional linear lightning

Abnormally great lifetime of ball light

Features of the disappearance of the ball light

References

Index

Afterword.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Torchigin, V. P. Ball Lightning As a Messenger from a New World of Circulating Light

ISBN:

1-5275-5070-2