A floating flame...how?

[Sam]

There could be a simple physical explaination for this.

When a candle burns the wick melts the wax and vaporises the molten wax into a flammable gas.  When the wick is burning the gas stays close to the source of ignition (the wick).  However when you extinguish the flame the hot wax will continue to emit some gas until it cools.  This gas would rise as it is less dense than the surrounding air and collect near the lid as there is nowhere for it to escape.  For the gas to reignite there needs to be an ignition source and its possible that the inside of the wick was still hot and the embers smouldered away to the outside of the wick where they contacted the gas and, well, vwoosh.

Thats pretty much the physical explaination.

[Life_afterdeath]

quote:Originally posted by Sam

There could be a simple physical explaination for this.

When a candle burns the wick melts the wax and vaporises the molten wax into a flammable gas.  When the wick is burning the gas stays close to the source of ignition (the wick).  However when you extinguish the flame the hot wax will continue to emit some gas until it cools.  This gas would rise as it is less dense than the surrounding air and collect near the lid as there is nowhere for it to escape.  For the gas to reignite there needs to be an ignition source and its possible that the inside of the wick was still hot and the embers smouldered away to the outside of the wick where they contacted the gas and, well, vwoosh.

Thats pretty much the physical explaination.

*HEE haw!*...I'm a jackass.

[Sam]

[)] it happens to us all once in a while.  Maybe theres another non physical explaination, I wasn't discounting that...

Taking a different tack, physics is a fairly useful subject when it comes to understanding the basic workings of the world and universe around us.  Its just when people try to use it as grounds for debunking anything that can't be shown to them as a mathematical equation that their minds are closed.  I read something about belief and perception here in another thread and it pretty much nailed it on the head when it comes to certain scientists becoming set in their knowledge that they "believe" that the answer lies in a certain direction when the evidence against it is clearly outweighing their own personal evidence.  An interesting example of science arguing with spirituality is over in this thread (at a forum i used to visit before I realised this one offers more in the way of experience):
http://www.astralforum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=552&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

other than all that - don't go thinking you're a jackass.  That would be like me thinking I'm a jackass for rocking up to red rooster (fast food chicken outlet in australia), ordering over the speaker thingy for two chicken dinners, one with no peas, with chips and a wnig, yes, thats two chicken dinners... no, no peas.  With a wing... ahuh...  ummm....  a sprite please...  hang on that was with no peas!  and gravy, yes...  okay thankyou...  (get to the window)...  uh....  I've left my money at home.  (doh!) (drive off with laughter coming from the back seat)

[Aries]

"That would be like me thinking I'm a jackass for rocking up to red rooster (fast food chicken outlet in australia), ordering over the speaker thingy for two chicken dinners, one with no peas, with chips and a wnig, yes, thats two chicken dinners... no, no peas. With a wing... ahuh... ummm.... a sprite please... hang on that was with no peas! and gravy, yes... okay thankyou... (get to the window)... uh.... I've left my money at home. (doh!) (drive off with laughter coming from the back seat)"

That was confusing....
-Aries

[Hephaestus]

quote:Originally posted by Life_afterdeath
Is this an omen of some kind?
Was the flame being attracted to my crown chakra?
I'm really puzzled as to how it did that.
Just thought I'd tell you guys about it since it was something I didn't know was possible.
It was as if the flame waspulledright off of the wick.

Yesterday I took some chips out of the oven and they wernt burnt, must be an omen!!

[Life_afterdeath]

Just a little bit ago, I saw something that I didn't know was possible.
I have one of those candles that have a lid you can put on them.
It's a clear, glass lid.  The candle needed to be put out, so I watched it.  After I put the lid on, the flame took a surprising amount of time to suffocate.  After it had completely gone out...it lit right back up...but the flame did something strange.
As I was looking directly down on it, the flame left the wick and floated upward, hitting the glass lid.  When it hit the lid, it disappeared.
Is this an omen of some kind?
Was the flame being attracted to my crown chakra?
I'm really puzzled as to how it did that.
Just thought I'd tell you guys about it since it was something I didn't know was possible.
It was as if the flame waspulledright off of the wick.