Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
From: immx@gate.net (Declan Murphy)
Organization: Project GLUE, Univ. of Maryland
Subject: Re: Ball lightning/ Plasma Experiment
Approved: eastman@glue.umd.edu

llrowla@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Stephen Goodfellow) writes:

>Jim and I felt that the high temperature explosion in the shock tube may
>be affected by the field lines; it was our notion that the end result

==> Could you elaborate a bit on why you expected this result. I am
curious.

>could be a compressed, magnetically polarised toroid. To get an idea of
>what that would look like, think of the structure of an orange; the 'hole'
>of this toroid is quite compressed at its center.

>I am personally of the opinion - Jim did not agree with me - that the
>center of plasma filaments are devoid of conventional space and induce

==> and here you lost me entirely as well. thanks.

>gravity. I hope those plasma researchers out there try to combine their
>plasma experiments with gravimeters in the future. Might be interesting.