<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>K, all<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: Courier New,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font>> I'm thinking that a very simple experiment would involve<br>depositing a metal film on the Bi2Te3, charging it to a high potential, and looking for the presence of a magnetic field. _Any_ field would be anomalous. A single charge should create a monopolar magnetic field.<br><br>There are a bunch of French and Russian experiments online claiming the formation of monopoles/ball lightning over a dielectric surface such as water following cap discharge. <br><br>The implication being that the two are one and the same, or at least related
somehow. I can dig up citations at some future date if needed. The Russian anme is unpronounceable ;-)<br><br>So why deposit a metal film at all? <br><br>Yes, you need a minimially intrusive conductive pathway, but a film could be overkill, and may be too intrusive. <br><br>Take the Bi2Te3, attach spaced-apart leads from a switched cap, and then spray a salt water mist on it before discharging the cap - just to see what happens in the simplest case. This can easily be refined if there is a slight indication of ball lightning.<br><br>The connection of BL and monopoles makes some sense to me, but is not a given. They have tied this in to Chernobyl, believe it or not.<br><br>Jones<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>