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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Ball lightning
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 01:49:05 EST
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> 14 times.  PMK's are like "super balls" and can bounce.  It's also dangerous 
> because of its energetic currents, (soft Xrays) and relativistic electron 
> current beam induced transmutation of elements in bricks in a chimmey where 
> the ball lightning explosively decayed.  Further, the rapid collapse of the 
> stray dipole field would set up killing image currents in the brain of any 
> living thing in proximity.

This is a little too much to swallow.  If you ever come by a reference in
a journal which explains the mystery of ball lightning I would like to see it.