Ball Lightning in a lab

[T'ai Chi]

Has ball lightning been reproduced in a lab yet?

[TeaBag420]

Originally posted by T'ai Chi
Has ball lightning been reproduced in a lab yet?

This is an essential question for the ball lightning debate.

An essential followup is, has regular lightning (cloud of water vapor and ground) been reproduced in a lab yet?

No van de graf generators, no dripping water through coffee cans with wires crossed, real lightning.

"We're going to need a bigger lab."
---- Jaws

[garys_2k]

I think that spheres of plasma have been created with microwaves, but nobody knows if those are related to ball lightning. In order to REproduce a phenomena, we would have to know enough about how it is PROduced in the first place, I'd say.