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Physicists Create Great Balls of Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cousin-marriage dept.

dylanduck writes "Talk about having fun at work. These guys have created luminous clouds of ball lightning up to 20 centimetres across and lasting up to half a second, longer and more realistic than before. There's a cool video too. They say it may even help understand how to contain the plasmas needed for nuclear fusion."

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  1. NewScientist Requires Skepticism by aldheorte · · Score: 0, Troll

    *groan* Did this article occur before or after "Crackpot Discovers Indiana Jones in Atlantis Battling Dinosaurs Originally Bred in Captivity By UFOs From Outer Space?" I'm not disparaging the science at hand, but could we get better source material? Please? Anyone?