Herbert Boerner: Ball Lightning | Buch

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Cover: 9783030207823 | Ball Lightning | Herbert Boerner | Buch | HC runder Rücken kaschiert

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Beschreibung

Ball lightning is an enigma. These luminous objects that appear occasionally during thunderstorms and can reach several meters in diameter have been a mystery to science for about 200 years. Despite several thousands of reported observations, their nature is still unknown. In this book, well documented cases of ball lightning are described and used to unravel some aspects of this mysterious form of atmospheric electricity. Throughout the book, the author discusses the various facets of the problem in an accessible but rigorous style, delivering a readable and informative text that will captivate the curious reader. He finally reaches the surprising conclusion that the solution to this puzzle may have been hidden in plain sight for many years.
A foreword by Earle Williams, leading lightning researcher at MIT, introduces the book.

Über den Autor

Herbert Boerner obtained his PhD for experimental work in High Energy Physics from Bonn University in 1981. After postdoc positions at KEK in Japan and CERN in Geneva he joined Philips research in 1986, first working in the Hamburg laboratory, and from 1995 on in the Aachen laboratory. From this year until his retirement in 2012 he worked on the physics and engineering of organic light emitting diodes (OLED).

Zusammenfassung

Introduced with a foreword by Earle Williams, leading MIT lightning researcher

A modern review of ball lightning for the general reader

Includes many striking photos

Includes new results linking ball lightning to "normal" lightning physics

Separates facts from fiction in ball lightning research

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Ball Lightning: Observers' Tales.- The Search for Photographic Evidence.- A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?.- Organizing and Analyzing the Observations.- Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers.- Thunderstorms and Lightning.- BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production.- The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning.- Some People Just Won't Believe It: The Skeptic's View.- Ball Lightning Theories.- BL Experiments.- Wrapping It All Up.- Appendix.- References

Details

Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Physik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	220
Inhalt:	xiv 205 S. 8 s/w Illustr. 49 farbige Illustr. 205 p. 57 illus. 49 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030207823
ISBN-10:	303020782X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Boerner, Herbert
Auflage:	1st ed. 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Maße:	241 x 160 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Herbert Boerner
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.07.2019
Gewicht:	0,5 kg

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