Ball lightning may explained as hallucinations

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 06:01 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists in Austria have calculated the magnetic fields associated with certain types of lightning strikes are powerful enough to create hallucinations of hovering balls of light in nearby observers, and that these visions would be interpreted as ball lightning.

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