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To: shades who wrote (63531)5/6/2005 8:03:23 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
which are essentially faraday cages no? How is this possible?

An electrical field cannot exist inside a faraday cage. The mathematical proof using electrostatic principles is fairly simple. If you were at the top of a metal tower, for example, but were mainly surrounded by metal on all sides, you should be safe during a lightening strike. Don't ask me to try it though.

The unusual phenomenon, ball lightening may well not have an electrical charge. The suggestion in the link below suggests it is molten silicon (or some other metal) oxidizing..

(nice picture and explanation)

abc.net.au
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