• DocumentCode
    1711369
  • Title

    Electro-nuclear reactions in micro ball lighting

  • Author

    Matsumoto, Tad

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Nucl. Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
  • fYear
    1999
  • Firstpage
    190
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given, as follows. The artificial generation of micro ball lightning (BL) during underwater spark discharges (USB) is presented. An atomic cluster in a special state was generated, called an "itonic" cluster, which could exist for a moment as a stable body and run around underwater as well as in air. The curious behavior of the cluster resembled BL in the natural environment. It was amazing that several new kinds of nuclear reactions ("electro-nuclear reactions (ENRs)") took place in the cluster. The most significant of ENRs among them was nuclear collapse, "electro-nuclear collapse (ENC)". Since the electromagnetic force is 40 orders stronger than the gravitational force, ENC was very easy to induce even in the laboratory. Nuclear transmutation (ENT) was also stimulated in the cluster. Experimental evidence for ENRs is shown. The mechanisms of ENRs is explained by the Nattoh model.
  • Keywords
    electron-nucleus reactions; lightning; (e,X); atomic cluster; electro-nuclear reactions; electromagnetic force; gravitational force; itonic cluster; micro ball lighting; nuclear collapse; nuclear transmutation; underwater spark discharges; Earthquakes; Electromagnetic forces; Gravity; Laboratories; Lightning; Nuclear power generation; Sparks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Plasma Science, 1999. ICOPS '99. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0730-9244
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5224-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PLASMA.1999.829469
  • Filename
    829469