Friday, June 15, 2007

BALL LIGHTNING


Lightning & thunders threaten human beings, our instinct towards
natural threats are ingrained in our psyche, since our ancestors lived
in caves and jungles. This one is more sophisticated form of
lightning. Normally it is believed that lightning doesn’t enter
closed rooms, but ball lightning is of different genre. It can enter a
closed room, can pass through a glass pane or wall. Some people from
North Sikkim had an encounter with this kind of lightning, I heard that
an Infant had severe burns due to this, when the ball hovered over
the sleeping child and disappeared suddenly. Scientists world over
unable to come to a conclusion about the origin of this ball
Lightning. Some say it is caused due to nuclear
Fussion/fission, because of the charged atmosphere during a cloudy
rainy day.-PONDER WONDER!