This is really important IMO.

[Michael Mozina]

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... underbolts

IMO this is the kind of 'cutting edge' physics that is actually pretty exciting. I think we (as a community) would be well served by taking the time to digest this material and to try to apply it to cosmology theory, to SAFIRE experiments, and to any other empirical experiments in the future.

[celeste]

Michael,
Excellent find.
"In theory this effect has been known: in this case the scattering particle acts as a funnel, gathering incident radiation from a large area and concentrating it in a small volume within the particle."
Do you see a different picture here? In EU, there is a focus on how a filament can gather up energy/material, and focus it into a particle (sun,planet,whole solar system,etc)? How do we get star formation at a pinch,etc?
Here, we have the opposite, with "scattering particles" "acting as funnels", to focus the incident radiation.

So here is the bigger question: Do "particles" act as funnels to focus radiation? Or does focused radiation result in a particle?



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