On one of her solitary girlhood walks, she once found herself accompanied by a lightning ball.
Unfortunately, the researchers have not been able to generate ball lightning in the laboratory.
And Dr Abrahamson believes their theory will even explain how ball lightning passes through windows and walls.
It has just been published after he read about ball lightning research and sent it to a scientist.
Ball lightning occurs so rarely that few photographs of it exist and researchers have had to rely on eyewitness accounts, some of them from previous centuries.
This one, however, unifies an awful lot of the properties of ball lightning under one theoretical umbrella, so I think it stands a very good chance of perhaps being correct.
There are several theories which might explain ball lightning.
The story began in 2006, when Dr Jerby and Dr Dikhtyar managed to create ball-lightning-like fireballs in their laboratory.
Dr Abrahamson believes that ball-lightning forms when a conventional lightning strike vaporises carbon and silicon oxides found in soil.
Moreover, Dr Abrahamson's theory fails to explain how ball-lightning can pass through windows and other solid objects, as some claim.
The new work by Messrs Jerby, Dikhtyar, Mitchell and their colleagues is not proof that natural ball-lightning consists of silicon nanoparticles.
Hull FC argued they could have been playing against 12 men when Fox stopped Briscoe playing the ball following a lightning break down the middle with 10 minutes left.
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