Purely electrical nature of ball lightning (BL), its elementary equations, calculated parameters and conditions of BL possible experimental generation

TL;DR

This paper models ball lightning as a purely electrical phenomenon using simple equations, estimating its parameters, energy, and conditions for experimental generation, emphasizing its electric nature and potential thermodynamic states.

Contribution

It introduces a simple electrical model of ball lightning, deriving equations for its size, energy, and conditions for experimental creation, highlighting its electric and thermodynamic properties.

Findings

Linear relation between BL size and atmospheric electric field

Estimated electron temperature of ~8000K for typical BL

Conditions for possible experimental generation of BL

Abstract

The nature of ball lightning (BL) is pure electric and can be described by simple equations following to elementary considerations of equality of translational acceleration and velocity of the ions and electrons, a spherical-like dipole BL as a whole and balance of the energy influx of atmospheric electricity and radiation losses. From these equations follows a linear relationship between the size of BL and the tension of the atmospheric field E. A typical size of the fireball (FB) r ~ 5 cm corresponds to the calculated electron temperature T(e) ~ 8000K at a pressure p = 1 at with a horizontal component of the electric field E a few kV/cm. I estimate the energy of BL and characterize the conditions of its possible experimental generation. The estimation is given of the surface tension of BL. The possibility of the "hot" and the most realistic thermodynamic non-equilibrium "cold" BL is discussed. Here we presented preliminary evaluations preceding the more detailed work in Arxiv.org [11].