Talk:Ball lightning/Archive 4

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Epileptic hallucinations

Very unscientific and simply ignorant is the claim that lightning strikes cause hallucinations to occur in the retina or that people suffering from epilepsy see fire balls. That's because a video camera, especially TV cameras that have proven the reality of ball lightning by filming the phenomenon, can't hallucinate or suffer from epilepsy! Make a connotation under that "hypothesis" in the text that this theory does not address anything concerning the phenomenon, however is great as new scientific insight of what can happen to people suffering from a seizure or seeing something due to lightning. sc Benham 94.109.243.46 (talk) 19:50, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source. Sundayclose (talk) 21:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Part of the problem is that there aren't any good videos of ball lightning.

There are a few videos that show reflections or lens flares that people have misinterpreted.

There are a few that are so low-res and blurry that nobody can say WHAT they show.

And there are many, many, many videos that feature ball lightning crudely added by computer-editing techniques.

ApLundell (talk) 23:30, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

EVOs - Exotic Vacuum Objects

There is a growing suggestion that will lightning is connected to or is the same thing as as video shows as proposed by Ken shoulders. Lawrence18uk (talk) 22:50, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

@Lawrence18uk I would argue that this is now scientific consensus.

The collapsing vortex explanation is the most supported by current science, a well known natural example of this is the pistol shrimps ability to snap its claw and create a "miniature ball lightning" that is nearly as hot as the sun. 24.9.67.157 (talk) 20:09, 13 May 2022 (UTC)