Nikola Tesla was the first person known to have recreated a ball lightning-like charge in the lab, in 1904. In the hundred years since then, only a few researchers have successfully repeated Tesla ...

You might have seen similar releases of plasma in Tesla coils or plasma balls. In general, these sparks are very chaotic and are used in places where that chaos is manageable or not too damaging.

1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.” Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical shape that ...