Thursday, 20. May 2010
Topic: SCIENCE - on May 20, 2010 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Ball lightning is all in the mind, say Austrian physicists
Physicists in Austria say they have solved the conundrum of "ball lightning", mysterious glowing spherical apparitions which baffled boffins have struggled to explain for centuries.
According to Josef Peer and Alexander Kendl of the University of Innsbruck, there is in fact no such thing as ball lightning in reality. Rather, powerful magnetic fields created by ordinary lightning affect the brains of humans nearby so that they see things which aren't there.
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