Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph 120
symbolset writes "Ball lightning has been reported for hundreds of years, and experimentally produced, but for the first time a natural will 'o wisp has been captured on video and amazingly, spectrograph, accidentally by researchers studying ordinary lightning."
Error in summary (Score:5, Informative)
I'd just like to note that a will o' the wisp [wikipedia.org] is not the same thing as ball lightning [wikipedia.org].
Re:link to video? (Score:5, Informative)
It's available here: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5
Not much to see though.
Warning: No video or pictures (Score:5, Informative)
Warning: This is another of those annoying website articles that describe a visually fascinating thing, but don't actually include any pictures or videos of said fascinating thing. Not even the the spectrograph, though that seems to be in the paper behind the paywall. The only picture is of some earlier lab-made ball lightning.
Video (Score:5, Informative)
Ball lightning video [dailymail.co.uk]
(Don't complain that it is the Daily Mail, it worked better than the Puffington Hosts.)
Re:link to video? (Score:5, Informative)
It takes a long time to get stuff published. They had to take their results, form a paper, get people to analysis it and then it goes under peer review. For us to have all this information a little over a year out is actually quite good. Also, we know it's gone under review. It could still have bad information in it, but it's less likely.
Re:Error in summary (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not the first time by a long shot (Score:4, Informative)
My understanding is that it's the first time when we have sufficient review to conclude that this is real and is actually of the phenomenon it purports to document.
Re:Warning: No video or pictures (Score:4, Informative)
It's in the first-linked article, directly underneath the picture.
Re:For. Fuck's. Sake. (Score:5, Informative)
It's embedded in the first article, on the right hand side, under the picture.