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coppercone2:
What is the minimum formation energy required for a ball lighting phenomena?

Could it possibly form in a sub station or circuit if there is a fault ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning#Vaporized_silicon_hypothesis

I wonder if a blown transistor can make it possibly to fuck something else up in a circuit? (in a one in a million odds)..
helius:
Most current research points to "ball lightning" as a neurological condition triggered by strong electromagnetic fields.
coppercone2:
its on high speed video

at least read the wikipedia article.

these are interesting too, it looks kinda like high life time welding spatter

ftp://ftp.aip.org/epaps/phys_rev_lett/E-PRLTAO-98-047705/

i think thats a silicone rod or substrate. imagine that flying in side of a enclosure.
IconicPCB:
We have experienced a ball lightning.
A lightning went past our workshop  and continued  past the house, between the house and rainwater drums.

In the workshop we lost a printer and a PC while th actual lightning was eyewitnessed by our mother.

A few seconds had elapsed and a loud bang was heard in the village down the road from us followed by a whole bunch of alarms going off.
mark03:
While I like Helius' explanation ;D  the weight of evidence seems to be leaning towards the "it's dirt" theories.  Some Chinese researchers seem to have captured a spectrum on film:
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5

Apparently, so the theory goes, a lightning strike vaporizes some soil constituents which can then form the luminous burning ball.  This seems to explain a number of observations, but not all, e.g. the well attested sightings on aircraft.

It is not at all clear that the ball-like discharges obtained in laboratories are the same thing as naturally occurring ball lightning, so the OP's question is impossible to answer.
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