Abstract
The nature of ball lightning remains obscure. This is so because ball lightning represents a rather rare phenomenon which no one has so far managed to reproduce quite convincingly in laboratory conditions. There are many hypotheses about the nature of ball lightning [1, 2], but our present remarks have apparently not been published so far. They deserve attention mainly because their verification leads to a well-defined avenue of experimental research.
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Kapitza, P.L. (1980). On the Nature of Ball Lightning. In: Experiment, Theory, Practice. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8977-1_5
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