Tsiklauri, David, Missing pieces of the solar jigsaw puzzle, Astronomy and Geophysics, 50, 5.32-5.38 (2009) (ADS)
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Here we have a nice, delicately colored, physically labeled view of the heart
of magnetic reconnection.
In this view the author is trying to
represent the real physics, as we understand it on a microscopic
level, rather than the fluffy misinterpretations we often get from
astronomers.
Look! Do you see a demagnetized electron hunting for
its new "field line"?
Or, do you see a "field line" that does not
represent the ions very well?
Another telling thing - do you see
any hint of
turbulence in the field pattern?
Or agyrotropic distribution functions?
The author may have been depicting a "laminar" reconnection that only
exists in the cartoon world.
Here we have a nice, delicately colored, physically labeled view of the heart of magnetic reconnection. In this view the author is trying to represent the real physics, as we understand it on a microscopic level, rather than the fluffy misinterpretations we often get from astronomers. Look! Do you see a demagnetized electron hunting for its new "field line"? Or, do you see a "field line" that does not represent the ions very well? Another telling thing - do you see any hint of turbulence in the field pattern? Or agyrotropic distribution functions? The author may have been depicting a "laminar" reconnection that only exists in the cartoon world.