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Research reveals how light loses stability in gases, resulting in luminous spherical films of compressed gas, suggesting new understandings of phenomena like ball lightning.
Ordinary intense white light can lose stability when propagating through gases, resulting in the formation of luminous objects consisting of a thin spherical film of highly compressed gas, in which light circulates in all possible directions. Natural ball lightning is a special case of such objects.
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