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The novel follows the experiences of a first-person protagonist, Chen, whose family was killed by ball lightning while he was in high school. Both traumatized and inspired by that experience, he makes the investigation of ball lightning his life's work, first getting his PhD in the subject, then exploring the phenomenon through both applied and theoretical research.
Ball lightning is a possible source of legends that describe luminous balls, such as the mythological Anchimayen from Argentinean and Chilean Mapuche culture.. According to a statistical investigation carried out in 1960, of 1,962 Oak Ridge National Laboratory monthly role personnel, and of all 15,923 Union Carbide Nuclear Company personnel in Oak Ridge, found 5.6% and 3.1% respectively ...
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire) [1] is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.
The Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Dartmoor, Kingdom of England, took place on Sunday, 21 October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm. An afternoon service was taking place at the time, and the building was packed with approximately 300 worshippers.
Ball State waited a long time to play Miami. Lightning in the area delayed the start of the game between the 10th-ranked Hurricanes and the Cardinals, two programs that were set to play for the ...
In the blink of an eye, out of the blue, a lightning bolt struck Ray Caldwell as he stood on the pitcher's mound, mid-game. Somehow, he just popped back up and finished the game. "It happened to ...
Highest-grossing films of 2011 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2: Warner Bros. $381,011,219 2 Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Paramount: $352,390,543 3 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1: Summit Entertainment: $281,287,133 4 The Hangover Part II: Warner Bros. $254,464,305 5
More than four decades after a young mother and her son were found dead in their Nebraska home, a forensic breakthrough has led to the arrest of a man long suspected in the case, according to ...