Talk:Ball lightning

Ball lightning as a room temperature superconductive quasi macro object

Hi, I have been looking into the possibility of micrometeoroids composed of high Z elements (eg Z of 160+) being responsible for at least some aspects of ball lightning. In this case, the electrical fields around a thunderstorm may interact with micrometeoroid fragments that have anomalous conductivity due to elements that normally aren't found on Earth with a high Z number. A plasma cloud might thus form that can hold a supercurrent due to the outer electrons being in a quasi superconductive state (Type III) where spin - spin coupling is the supercurrent exchange mechanism. This would be more stable at elevated temperature and potentially hold this current for multiple minutes until plasma instabilities break the loop resulting in either a slow fizzling out or an explosion due to runaway breakdown.

As this may also generate significant radio interference it also has relevance to "Whistlers" and other atmospheric RF noise sources. This may in fact constitute a unified theory of ball lightning accounting for all the observed cases including penetration into confined spaces, through glass and other difficult to explain observations. In the cases mentioned, methane and other gases may also contribute to the plasma channel formation and also explain why a lot of ball lightning is reddish orange due to this being a common colour attributed to the aurora borealis. 78.111.195.1 (talk) 14:59, 15 October 2023 (UTC)