From: "Terrell W. Fritz"
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:50:30 -0700
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Final solution...great chance for it
Hi All, I have looked into fire balls. Cabbot Sanders tried to replicate the Corum's setup in the paper as close as possible and he did not get anything. He was talking directly to the Corums during this and had their help. I won't repeat the many colorful words he used when it was all over, but he was "disappointed"... I discussed this with Richard Hull a few years ago and he stated that he knew of no method of producing fire balls like ball lighting. Occasionally, a streamer will light up a bit of dust in the air or a bug, but true ball lightening like fireballs cannot be made as far as I know. One can get burning metal embers and such as produced in arc welding but true ball lighting on demand that you can make and have float around the room for awhile is still a dream. I have placed burning candles in a microwave (destroys it) but there you are pumping ~1000 watts of microwave energy into the plasma which is cheating. Robert Goldka's giant coil in Utah was meant to produce ball lightening too. The results were zero despite his practically burning the place down in desperate attempts (he sprayed oil all over the place which eventually caught fire). Bill Wysock's Model 13 is the biggest coil on the block and similar to Tesla's (twice the power) but it does not produce ball lighting. Ball lighting remains off-topic on the Tesla list since no one has ever made it. We did support Cabbot's efforts but the darn thing just didn't work... It appears that Tesla's reference to it were either the burning dust types or we are really missing something... There are a few churning electromagnetic field theories from Russia about how such a thing could exist. However, those are pretty "pie in the sky" and nothing "real" came out of it. There has been some weapons research money put into it (Corum's and Goldka) but that was fringe stuff that never produced. Cheers, Terry At 07:36 AM 12/24/2000 +0000, you wrote: >boris petkovic wrote: > >> > Do you have The Corums' paper on their production of >> > fire balls.?If you don't have it I'd like to send it . >> > Althought I completely disagree with their resonator >> > theory,the paper of production of fire balls is a must >> > see. >> > --- > >Bert Hickman wrote: > >> Boris, >> >> Do you know of anyone else who has been able to replicate fire ball >> production? > >I looked at some of their notes on resonator theory some months >ago, and found nothing of value. The material I saw was riddled with >elementary errors which left me doubting the author's credentials. >This, together with their further claims of involvement with attempts >to replicate 'earth resonance' experiments and such things places them >firmly in the pseudoscience category as far as I'm concerned. As for >their fireballs, I see nothing of value in this - I can and normally do >produce my own fireballs whenever I attempt to weld anything, usually >to the detriment of the item being welded! In fact I recall a TV >program with these fireballs demonstrated - a bloke hacking away >at a lump of metal with a welder or submarine battery, IIRC. Hey, >I can do that! > >Boris, I think I have the paper you mention somewhere. If I can find >it I'll give it another read. What is your point in referring to it? > >Regards, >-- >Paul Nicholson, >Manchester, UK. >--
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.