Click to open: Microscopic Ball Lightning, Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Ball Lightning.
Microscopic ball lightning, smaller than a tenth of a millimeter, has been produced by electrical discharge and electrolysis experiments. It shares the anomalous characteristics of natural ball lightning such as the ability to bore holes in materials and transmute atoms. It groups and organizes in the same way as natural ball lightning, in chains and rings. It has anomalous effects on materials, putting atoms into an anomalous state in which the atoms flow, move, organize, and transmute. Atoms in this state may move with very little heat in their environment. Pictures of microscopic ball lightning effects from various authors are included in this article to help describe the behavior of the phenomenon.
Starting from the middle of the 1990s, the International Symposiums on Ball Lightning became one of the main venues for presenting about micro ball lightning/plasmoids and the plasmoid state in transmutation experiments.
The three pictures of traces above were taken by Matsumoto on nuclear emulsion outside his experiment. They show micro ball lightning hopping and skimming activity. I thank Matsumoto for giving me permission to use his pictures in his articles long ago.
E. H. Lewis, Microscopic Ball Lightning in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Ball Lightning, ISBL-06, 16-19 August 2006, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Ed. G. C. Dijkhuis