Ball Lightning: A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity
Author:   Herbert Boerner
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   26 October 2025
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Ball Lightning: A Popular Guide to a Longstanding Mystery in Atmospheric Electricity


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Author:   Herbert Boerner
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Second Edition 2025
ISBN:  

9783032021632


ISBN 10:   3032021634
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   26 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Ball Lightning: Observers’ Tales.- Chapter 3: The Search for Photographic Evidence.- Chapter 4: A Bit of Philosophy, or What Has a Razor to Do with Ball Lightning?.- Chapter 5: Organizing and Analyzing The Observations.- Chapter 6: Electrical Discharges, Coronas, and Streamers.- Chapter 7: Thunderstorms and Lightning.- Chapter 8: BL: Well Documented Cases of Copious Production.- Chapter 9: The Link Between Lightning Physics and Ball Lightning.- Chapter 10: Some People Just Won’t Believe It: The Skeptic’s View.- Chapter 11: Ball Lightning Theories.- Chapter 12: BL Experiments.- Chapter 13: Wrapping It All Up.

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Herbert Boerner obtained his PhD for experimental work in High Energy Physics from Bonn University in 1981. After postdoc positions at KEK in Japan and CERN in Geneva he joined Philips research in 1986, first working in the Hamburg laboratory, and from 1995 on in the Aachen laboratory. From this year until his retirement in 2012 he worked on the physics and engineering of organic light emitting diodes (OLED).

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