Yep Alex;
Quasars are certainly a mystery. Lucky science is about asking questions as opposed to coming up with answers !
I notice that the Dense Plasma Focus machine has to be
designed to pretty high tolerances to generate a Plasmoid. A deviation of only 10%, if the plasma focus is to operate efficiently.
I wonder what the chances of that happening in nature are ?
Lerner's doing some good research into producing fusion energy here on Earth. Good on him. He should stick with it !
Actually, I found Gaede to be very entertaining. I cracked up at his experiment. (Probably for different reasons than he was intending, though!)
I don't quite understand all the angst about magnetic reconnection .. I mean, chaotic, energetic turbulence in any plasma would cause current flows to change abruptly .. whether its caused by magnetic field reconnection, or interrupted amplified electricity flows is kind of like a chicken and egg debate, isn't it ? (I may not know enough about the controversy/debate here yet, mind you).
The fact that energy is increased within a chaotic flow is enough for me as a reasonable basis for seeing that the coronal heating issue may be caused by external conditions (not excluding acoustics as well). (Ie: rather than modelling it all as an isolated system not obeying the second law themodynamics. If it's not isolated, then no problems, huh ?)
For once, we may have some common thoughts ?
Cheers