Answers to “Questions regarding alleged laboratory creation of ball lightning” from the standpoint of plasma physics and electrodynamics

IF 2.2 4区地球科学 Q3 GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-29 DOI:10.1016/j.jastp.2025.106674

Alexander Oreshko

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It is shown that the article by M.L. Shmatov's and K.D. Stephan's (Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 242 (2023) 105,995) contains a number of unsubstantiated and erroneous claims on the produced in the laboratory ball lightning (Oreshko, 2015, 2019; 2021). Shmatov and Stephan interpreted Oreshko's spherically symmetric ball lightnings, consisting of charged particles and moving at high velocity, as gas-dynamic “regions of light-emitting air”. It is also shown that the high velocity of laboratory ball lightning in the region of its origin is achieved due to the fact that it moves in the field of an intense transverse electromagnetic wave with the help of which the generation of ball lightning occurred. The traveling electromagnetic wave in the region of ball lightning generation acts on its particles as a multi-stage accelerator. The assumptions and conclusions of Shmatov and Stephan completely contradict the results of real physical experiments and their correct theoretical substantiation.

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从等离子体物理学和电动力学的角度回答“关于所谓实验室创造球形闪电的问题”

研究表明，M.L. Shmatov和K.D. Stephan的文章（Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 242(2023) 105,995）包含了许多未经证实和错误的关于实验室球状闪电产生的说法（Oreshko, 2015, 2019; 2021）。Shmatov和Stephan解释了Oreshko的球形对称闪电，由带电粒子组成，以高速运动，作为气体动力学的“发光空气区域”。研究还表明，实验室球形闪电在其起源区域的高速度是由于它在强烈的横向电磁波场中运动而产生的，借助这种电磁波场产生了球形闪电。球型闪电产生区的行电磁波作为一个多级加速器作用于球型闪电粒子。Shmatov和Stephan的假设和结论与实际物理实验的结果及其正确的理论依据完全矛盾。

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Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 地学-地球化学与地球物理

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4.10

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) is an international journal concerned with the inter-disciplinary science of the Earth''s atmospheric and space environment, especially the highly varied and highly variable physical phenomena that occur in this natural laboratory and the processes that couple them. The journal covers the physical processes operating in the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, the Sun, interplanetary medium, and heliosphere. Phenomena occurring in other "spheres", solar influences on climate, and supporting laboratory measurements are also considered. The journal deals especially with the coupling between the different regions. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic events on the Sun create interesting and important perturbations in the near-Earth space environment. The physics of such "space weather" is central to the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and the journal welcomes papers that lead in the direction of a predictive understanding of the coupled system. Regarding the upper atmosphere, the subjects of aeronomy, geomagnetism and geoelectricity, auroral phenomena, radio wave propagation, and plasma instabilities, are examples within the broad field of solar-terrestrial physics which emphasise the energy exchange between the solar wind, the magnetospheric and ionospheric plasmas, and the neutral gas. In the lower atmosphere, topics covered range from mesoscale to global scale dynamics, to atmospheric electricity, lightning and its effects, and to anthropogenic changes.