Micro ball lightnings that range in size from about a millimeter to atomic scale are much smaller versions of the huge ball lightnings that come out of volcanoes as witnessed by many observers and videoed many times. This article was published in August of 2006 at the ISBL-06 meeting. The International Symposium of Ball Lightning was an important series of international conferences that brought together researchers from around the world to publish detailed proceedings. The first several proceedings helped me develop my theory in 1992. Articles similar to this one were published around the same time in a physics periodical and maybe in an ICCF. By this time in history, the Russian research groups were involved in experimental and theoretical research. I tried to summarize the evidence and explain my theoretical point of view. The micro ball lightning described in the article are related to huge ball lightning that Egon Bach called “gorgons.” The state shifting behavior of ball lightning and ball lightning as a state of matter were two topics that were described here.
Microscopic Ball Lightning — ISBL’06
