Balkan Museum - Balkanski Muzej

I will present historical artifact find by myself on different sources
in area of former prehistoric area of Illyricum and present Balkan countries

How this become a BALL from ancient mythology to cosmic plasma discharge we know today.

PLASMA SPHERES IN MEXICO

All from web site http://www.randi.org/jr/111502.html

Many years ago, I saw at a museum in Washington, DC, a huge stone ball, about six feet in diameter. Its surface was rough but uniform, about like that of a cast concrete wall. The sign next to it said that it came from Costa Rica, and was an exceptionally large example of similar objects to be found there and in Mexico, ranging from a few inches or so to either 4 or 8 feet, depending on which articles you read.

Many descriptions of these objects have appeared in woo-woo books, with much wonderment about how "primitive" humans were able to fashion such balls to an accuracy of either 2% or .08% - again depending on whose account you read. Some years ago, I exchanged letters with Arthur C. Clarke, who had stated that these were most certainly Man-made, because of tool-marks still visible on the surfaces.

The true nature and origin of the stone balls is quite different, though just as wonderful, in my opinion. They are formed in volcanic areas, in magma, and are the results of very much the same process that occurred in that once-popular and outstandingly grotesque novelty, the "Lava Lamp." This consisted of a bottle with a heating element in the bottom of it, containing two non-miscible ("won't-mix") liquids of slightly different densities and of different colors. The heavier liquid would of course settle to the bottom of the container, and when the heater was turned on, the adjacent liquid would expand, become less dense, and rise to the surface of the bottle. There, it would cool again and slowly settle back to the bottom. Thus, there was a repeating motion of globs of colored liquid rising and falling, an action that enchanted those who are easily attracted by inane entertainments.

Those "globs" were spherical, taking that form naturally due to being effectively "weightless" in the surrounding medium. In space travel, released liquids take that same form, only settling out when being affected by a change in surface tension or other such interference. Their own surface tension holds them together, and they take the form of a sphere because that is the "default," in those circumstances.

These stone balls are formed when the material - granodiorite, a metamorphic rock - melts in magma and is of different density than the surrounding fluid. Upon slowly cooling and solidifying, the magma traps the balls until weathering wears away the surrounding material, and the balls - occasionally - come to the surface by other geophysical means. They are still found, today, usually in valleys (why?) and still invoke wonder.

(There is another form of stone ball that can be formed of quartz sand - sandstone, a form of concretion that has a "seed" object like a crab or oyster shell at its center, but that's known as "new" rock, much like the "beach rock" that formed near Bimini and gave rise to the "Bimini Road" error that suggested Atlantis to the suggestible. See my book, "Flim-Flam!", pages 48 to 51. However, in this discussion we're dealing with very ancient, stone balls originating at very high - volcanic - temperatures.)

When discovered, these almost-perfect spheres are of course rather easily moved - especially downhill! - and early civilizations would spot them and set them aside as curiosities, sometimes incorporating them into their temples.

Ah, but remember that Clarke mentioned evidence of tool-marks on the surface of these objects, and his conclusion that this meant they were Man-made? I omitted one detail, above, when I wrote that the balls are still discovered, today. They sometimes have a thick "crust" on them, which can be chipped off with simple tools to reveal the much smoother surface beneath. The tools, it's obvious, will leave some marks behind on the new surface....

The most interesting aspect of all this, to me, is that "experts" in Costa Rica insist that their stone balls were fashioned by ancient inhabitants of the area, while those found in Mexico - same material and appearance - are the result of natural volcanic forces. I sense a lack of logic here....

I recently found this photograph of an area near Alenquer, in the Extremadura area on the west coast of Portugal, 35 km. north of Lisbon. I believe I see here a few similar formations, though I'd not been aware that they might also be found in that part of the world. Since looking into the matter a little further, I find that they're also reported in Easter Island!

Folks, the notion that these are marvelous artifacts fabricated by ancient peoples, can be laid to rest not only by the geological evidence, but by the fact that the balls are found in such widely-separated geographical locations, and they are all made of the same igneous rock! And, if the ancients had chosen to make stone balls, they would, in my opinion, have opted to make them from much softer and more available material, such as limestone. Don't throw at me the fact that various kinds of pyramids (obviously Man-made) are found in widely-separated areas of the world: Egypt, Central and South America, Mexico, Sudan, India, Italy, and Greece. A pyramid is one of the most stable, easily-designed and easily-constructed forms. It is, in effect, almost any other less stable architectural shape that has already fallen down, and is thus not expected to change much over the ages.

Yes, another celebration of Man's ingenuity turns into a mere miracle of Nature. Next, we'll turn to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, and its marvelous pillars.

Or maybe not.....

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