Re: A Puzzle

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• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:09:45 -0500
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From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent: 	Tuesday, September 09, 1997 4:59 PM
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Subject: 	Re: A Puzzle

Richard Wayne Wall wrote:


> >There's over 50+ years of experimental evidence confirming both
> >initial Townsend AND Streamer propagation mechanisms in long spark
> >formation.  Are you saying that this is an outmoded EM concept?
> > -Bert
>
> If the theory is that multiampere current is responsible for initiation
> and maintenance of TC resonator discharges, yes.  Long standing
> theories of experimental evidence are not at all impressive if they are
> incorrect.  All concepts eventually become outmoded if they are
> incorrect.  Replaced by more correct concepts and theory.  Repeat.
> 
> RWW

If, by chance, it was discovered that multi-ampere pulse structures
do exist in the base of an arrested streamer, how would you account
for this?  High current, short duration current pulses have already
been observed in lightning strikes, as the leading edge advances.


-GL

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