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The peculiarity of the image of the firebird is that the fire here is not just alive, he has intelligence.
There are many tales where the firebird is mentioned: from simple and short stories to large, in which the image of a miraculous birds are only a link in a chain of incredible events taking place with the main a hero, a good fellow.
In these tales, the king or king must hear about a miracle and strives to get his hands on it. One of the wonders is this Firebird. Often it is not the ultimate goal of the main adventure hero, but only displays it through a series of events on beauty princess, to reign in a happy marriage.
The simplest story about a firebird is this: “In a certain kingdom, for distant lands – in the thirtieth state he lived-was strong, mighty king. That king had a fine archer, and a fine archer – the horse is heroic. Once the Sagittarius rode his horse into the forest to hunt. He rode, rode a wide road and ran over a golden feather firebirds: how fire a feather glows!
And here the hero’s horse says to the archer: “Do not take the pen, take – grief you will know! ”
A good fellow thoughtful. If you raise a king’s feather, can the sovereign reward generously, but royal mercy is not worth anyone? He did not obey his horse, raised a feather of a firebird, and brought it to the king. “Thank you!” The king says. “But if you took out one feather, get it me and the bird itself, but you won’t get it – my sword, your head with shoulders! ”
Someone will whip them …
What is a firebird, what secret meaning can be hidden behind her? This is a flying fire, and compact, the size of really with a bird behaving very mysteriously. Catch him given only to the most daring young man to whom a wise wife (or someone else) tells you how to catch it. But good fellow only a performer. The will (the Jansky beginning) to catch the bird comes from the king, and the method (Yin wisdom) – from the wife. This is the general alignment of many fairy tales.
Assuming that the fabulous image of the firebird exists natural prototype, then nothing more suitable than a ball lightning is hard to imagine. Ball lightning is the same fire that flies, and with its appearance it resembles just a bird.
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Our ancestors, of course, saw ball lightning and could not pass past this rare mysterious phenomenon. Naturally, what a miracle aroused genuine interest in nature – a desire to understand it natural essence and destiny.
I must say that so far collisions with ball lightning end in different ways. Someone will whip them, someone with a broom will drive away who throws a stone … But no one managed to catch the ball zipper, and even more so in a cage to lock. But what an image of a firebird deducted from ball lightning, no doubt: even in her tales the appearance is accompanied by natural unrest: “Suddenly a forest rustled, waves rose on the sea – a firebird flies … ”
All this is very similar to the appearance of real ball lightning, which happens, and the waves drive, and the trees tend.
Once the inhabitants of a remote Ural village, standing on a high the shore of a small forest river, saw a floating, very buzzing black ball. He cracked and made an incredible noise. In the course of it there was a wave a half meter high along the river, and along the banks trees broke at the same height. When the ball approached village, everyone decided that the end of the world had come, – he inspired such horror in people; many, falling to their knees, began to pray. Ball slowly I walked by, pushed the roof from the bathhouse on the shore, and walked along a small river in the forest. And then an unprecedented severe thunderstorm erupted.
Talk to fire
The most important feature of the image of the firebird is that the fire is not here just alive, he has intelligence. But also real ball lightnings sometimes they behave so “rationally” that they take the hell. Among some researchers of the phenomenon of ball lightning even exist the opinion that it is endowed with reason, that it is an independent form of life.
For example, Academician of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vlail Kaznacheev believes that along with our usual form of existence there is also field life form. “This is a kind of energy substance, – explains the academician, possibly of a plasma type. And she possesses the rudiments of intelligence. ”
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The author heard an eyewitness account of the fact that ball lightning, once in hut, circled all those sitting at the dining table and hit in the side one woman, striking her to death. The most amazing thing is that the unfortunate was the only severely ill at that time in at home – she suffered from the disease in her side struck by lightning. what Is it an accident or something else?
Perhaps it was not for nothing that the ancient storytellers called flying fire firebird. Of course, they did not know theories of plasma, but her living essence, it turns out, felt. Maybe because of that and the attempts of the last decades to create a controlled plasma, that physicists do not see its most important property – vitality? However, many see, but they are not yet able to figure it out.
We allow ourselves an excerpt from the work of an authoritative specialist in field of plasma physics F. Chen: “We live in that part of the universe, making up one percent of it, where plasma doesn’t naturally arises. In many cases, plasma behaves as if it itself endowed with intelligence. ”
These words are a recognized expert in the field of plasma dear are standing! But it’s not enough to recognize the plasma as reasonable, it is necessary to have it the theory. Such theories have been developed, but here’s how to evaluate them. Nobel laureate in experimental research Plasma X. Alfven: “Although theories were generally accepted, plasma itself refused to obey them. Instead in plasma there were many important effects that were not taken into account theory … ”
The fact that ball lightning is a clot of plasma has already become common opinion, and, like ordinary plasma, “ball” poses modern science to a dead end, starting with traffic. Observers note that lightning usually move slowly. But one pilot talked about a ball of fire that floated for several minutes before the nose of his plane, moving at a speed of 520 kilometers in hour.
The trajectories of ball lightning are also difficult to explain. Luminous balls then carefully fly around the room, holding on to one and the same height, then they move along the wires, or else they write out strange zigzags. Some researchers tried to explain the movement ball lightning by wind or drafts, but there are cases when lightning slowly rolled over the wing of a flying airplane, despite wind.
Particularly strange are the contacts of ball lightning with a person. They simply amaze with their illogicality. In one case, lightning easily turns the tractor over, in another it explodes when light in contact with the car, in the third – allows you to move through yourself to a motorcyclist.
Unfortunately, not all ball lightning encounters with a person end peacefully. The famous ufologist Maxim Karpenko leads rather sad results of such contacts: from known 412 17 cases lost consciousness, 4 were injured, 7 died.
What world is the window
Many of the eyewitnesses who met ball lightning spoke about her as a living creature. What is it – life in the form of pure energy? Recently, some physicists involved problems that are on the border of traditional science, suggested that ball lightning is a product of piercing our planet and the entire cosmic space of quantum vacuum. is he by no means emptiness and has gigantic energy, ability remember information.
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Ufologist Maxim Karpenko gave an unexpected explanation to the amazing the behavior of ball lightning: “Eyewitness accounts of meetings with ball lightning lightning bolts, like pieces of mosaic, put together, create an image an amazing creature with an incomprehensible mind and logic – sort of a clot of plasma formed at the site of local concentration energy and incorporating part of this energy, self-organized and evolved to the awareness of the environment the world and yourself in it. ”
No wonder Peter Kapitsa, who tried at the end of his life in laboratory conditions create ball lightning (figuratively speaking, drive the firebird into the cage), in the end he said: “Ball lightning is window to another world. “What is so different? What did the scientist mean? Maybe that is ahead of an era of a completely different physics?
There is no such cell yet
Catching (taming) a firebird in fairy tales is very difficult. After all the firebird is a rare and even moral entity. Could catch her only a strong-willed and good-natured person, because what gives a firebird that can bring the hero real happiness. If anyone wants to use it for the sake of self-interest, only get trouble in return. The firebird gives a miracle only to the most worthy.
And, as far as we know, the image of this wonderful bird is found mainly in Russian folk tales. Of course, ball lightning flied in other countries, but why then in foreign fairy tales and folklore, this phenomenon is not reflected? Not hoping to catch?
Maybe in the future we will be able to create ball lightning, to master thermonuclear energy. Incidentally, the proposal for the use of controlled fusion for industrial goals and circuit using high temperature thermal insulation electric field plasmas were first formulated by the Soviet physicist O.A. Lavrentiev in mid-1950. HELL. Sakharov and I.E. Tamm in 1951 proposed to modify the circuit, showing theoretical basis of a fusion reactor, where the plasma would have the shape of the torus and was held by a magnetic field.
The term “tokamak” was coined later by I.N. Golovin, a student Academician Kurchatov. It originally sounded like a “tokamag” – short for “toroidal magnetic chamber”. But N.A. Yavlinsky, the author of the first toroidal system, proposed replacing “-mag” to “-mag” for harmony. Later this name was borrowed by many languages. The first tokamak was built in 1954 year, and for a long time tokamaki existed only in our country.
Well, as they say, wait and see who will catch and tame firebird.
Pavel Guslyar
Bird Life Time
