A very interesting little case ...
I'd like some more details on this incident ...
The Pot:
- Did you ever get to examine the pot?
- Did you determine what the pot's features were (e.g., thickness; metal composition; laminated or not)?
- Was it bare / polished metal, or was it colored / coated?
- Was there something special about the pot that would make it worthwhile to repair rather than simply replace?
The Scene:
- The woman / customer was holding the pot the whole time - right?
- Was the pot carried into the shop 'bare' (as is; not in a bag or container), or was it removed from some bag / container for your inspection?
- What was the weather like outside the shop?
- Were you and the woman standing where light from outside (e.g., through a window) could illuminate you?
- What sort of interior lighting (if any) was illuminating this scene?
The 'Plasma' / 'Wave'
- This visible phenomenon started from your hand and extended toward the pot - right?
- Did it start at / on your hand and progressively stretch outward toward the port?
OR
- Was it a discrete blob of light that left your hand and moved over toward the pot?
OR
- (whatever else you can say to describe how it appeared and moved between your hand and the pot)
- Did this luminous thing ever reach / touch the pot?
- Did this luminous thing seem to give off any light (glow)?
- Was this luminous thing really multi- / rainbow colored as illustrated in your sketch? If so ...
- Were the bands of color longitudinal to the thing (as illustrated) or did they cross the path between your hand and the pot?
- Why do you refer to it as 'plasma'? What characteristic(s) made you think of plasma?
You titled this thread 'Wave', and your illustration shows the luminous thing being wavy ...
- Was it simply wavy in form only (a static / steady undulating shape)?
OR
- Did it exhibit a dynamic 'wave' motion of some sort (quiver; vibrate; undulate; whatever)? If so - please describe ...
- How did this luminous display end if it ended? (For example: It disappeared when it reached the pot; it faded out when the woman jerked the pot away; It remained in the air after she retracted the pot and left; whatever ...)
- Did you feel anything while this happened (a tingle; a shock; whatever)?
- What had you been doing immediately before interacting with the woman?
EnolaGaia:
THE POT:
*I did hold the pot for a very short time - then she snatched it away from me.
*Some sort of alloy or steel pot (old type - well used) but just metal - no coating.
*Summer time quite a hot day as I remember this took place in Scotland quite a few years ago.
*No, this was inside the shop itself, and the pot was obviously a right off - there was a product called plastic-metal at the time but I doubt if it
would have done anything to mend that pot as the hole in the base was to large.
THE SCENE:
*The woman was indeed holding the pot until after the event when I held it for a few seconds before she ran off.
*She had the pot in her hand when she walked into the shop, no packing or anything like that - just the pot in her hand.
*We always had fluorescent shop lights lit most times of the day - nothing else.
THE WAVE/PLASMA:
*The brightly coloured - ribboned wave definitely extended out from my hand directly towards the nearest part of the pot... relatively slowly!
*It was a continual wavy ribbon which definitely extended towards the pot - not as a sudden flash or ball of light, but
grew gradually outwards from the ends of my finger tips towards it.
*Yes, it extended right up to the edge of the pot that the woman was holding.
*It seemed to have a bright glow along with all the colours it was displaying as it passed into the pot - I've particularly made my sketch an exact depiction of how it happened. All the bands of colour were longitudinally aligned parallel with the wave. (As illustrated)
*Not to sure why I have termed it as possibly being of Plasma in it's make up, but I suppose my rational tells me that if it was static - or any other kind of electrical build-up, it would (I can only imagine) have flashed across the distance in a split second with some kind of a blue hued flash of light - not a steady growing ribbon as this seemed to develope.
*The wave was steady and continual - like it was
in a fixed path of
relatively slow forwards motion.
*It ended being totally 'absorbed' into the pot as the tail end of it ceased to flow to the pot itself.
*Did I feel anything whilst it happened - that's a tricky one to give a clear answer to, however, looking back at what happened I think it would be more accurate to say that it instantly "shocked" me, (surprised me) but not in the
electrical sense of the word.
*Before the woman walked in to the shop I would have been serving other customers(with wallpaper; paint or ironmongery, as there were quite a few other customers in the shop at the time, and the owner was serving customers alongside me and another shop assistant, although when I told him why the customer had fled the shop he was a bit lost for words.