BOTM January 2008 - 球状闪电

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muyongshi -

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Obviously the chaptered version saves a lot of scrolling about trying to save your place.

And a tad bit harder (as in time needed) to save into files..... (in my experience)

But I guess I could solve that by just doing it as I need it rather than trying to just do it all

in one sitting (wow brilliant idea!!!)

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muyongshi -

From the second paragraph of the first page:

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这是个雷雨之夜

This could be considered slightly disturbing....

imron -

Haha, well, it seems that November BOTM wasn't a waste of time then if you can pick up on that

reference

roddy -

Noooooooooobody else? Just imron and muyongshi? Come on folks, just try a chapter

xiaocai -

He is one of my favourite Chinese School, he feels he needs to get

things clear. He pays 张 a visit, and tells him what he knows. In response 张 then shows him

what is in his spare room - boxes and boxes of notes about 张's research into ball lightning -

which over the last 30 years, he never gave up on, and a picture of 张‘s wife (long since

deceased) hanging on the wall. 张 tells 陈 that he can have all the boxes, as well as a notebook

and some disks. 陈 asks if he can take the picture and scan in into the computer, when 张 asks

why, 陈 mentions that possibly one day he wants to let the whole world know about the first

person to perform direct measurements on ball lightning.

[This was the bit I thought wasn't really explained really well. Nowhere previously does it really

seem to mention 张's wife and how she died, and what relationship she had to ball lightning.

Perhaps I missed something, or these questions are answered later on. In any event in the next

chapter we learn a little bit more, but still nothing specific]

陈 takes the boxes home and starts reading through 张's notes, which are detailed and brilliant.

In the notes 张 presents 3 different mathematical models for ball lightning, including one

similar to the model 陈 presented for his thesis - however 张's notes also point out a flaw in

this model - which is interesting, especially as that means he would have known 陈's model was

flawed during the defense of his thesis, but never brought it up. The notes also contain many

other unfinished models that were abandoned for one reason or another.

While he's reading through all the notes, 高波 comes to visit him to say that he's leaving the

school to take up a position of head of the Lightning Research Institute. 高 also offers 陈 a

position working there if he wants to take it, which 陈 accepts.

Two days before leaving, 张 comes to visit him to tells 陈 about the path that 陈 is about to

embark on will be painful. 陈 initially thinks this is because all 张's years of research came

to nothing, and tells 张 not to worry. 张 responds that this is not the reason and he doesn't

have any regrets about the research he's done or his life, but that the most painful thing after

all these years being obsessed with ball lightning, is that after that first encounter, he'd never

seen it again.

They talk some more, and as 张 is leaving he mentions that his last hope in life is that 陈 will

allow them both to see ball lightning one more time.

Chapter 7 Once again, this chapter starts to head into the supernatural territory. The night of

张's visit, 陈 can't get to sleep. As he's lying in bed he hears a sigh. And then another. As he

turns on the light he thinks he sees a shadow moving towards the window, that reminds him of the

hair incident all those years ago. This keeps him even more awake, and when he realises he has no

hope of sleeping, he starts reading through 张’s notes again. As he's reading them, he notices

that one of the pages has a section crossed out, and next to it is written a more simplifed

formula. However, this is written in a different (more elegant) handwriting and has also used

different ink. He compares this to the notebook 张 gave him previously (that contains 张‘s

wife's handwriting?) and the writing matches up. He looks back at the date on the notes that were

crossed out, and it was 1983 - 12 years after the death of 张’s wife. The new formula also

contains a value/parameter for plasma fluids (?) that wasn't discovered until 1985. 陈 starts

hunting through all the other notes, and finds several more corrections also written in the same

handwriting/ink.

He then takes a look at the scan of the photo of 张‘s wife and using some photo-editing skills

he picked up while manipulating various images of electricity these past few years, he finds out

that one of the pockets on the photo contains the outline of a 3.5“ disk - again impossible

considering the time that 张's wife was supposed to have died.

muyongshi -

Ha! This month has been crazy (been doing tour guide/translator for a group of friends from the

states for three weeks) and now I am in Thailand...still hoping to get around too it but I don't

think it's gonna happen this month...

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