Alfvénon, driven reconnection and the direct generation of the field-aligned current

This is a theoretical concept that might or might not find a happy home in solar flare research. The idea is to describe the particle-like properties of wave packets. Think of photons in an electromagnetic field, and then put yourself in an MHD fluid instead of the luminiferous ether, and there you have it: an Alfvénon. Or, as Uchida & Kaburaki might have put it, a "magnetohydrodynamon." The Archivist doesn't fully understand the wave dynamics here, but white and black in (a) and (b) probably refer to field and current variations as one of these packets trucks along. It may be that this description of wave dynamics, which is not too well cited, has found little practical application. But why wouldn't it?