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Lloyd said:
2LK: In the papers I read online, mentioned below, I think they said the (invariant width) galactic filaments predominate throughout the galaxy, or at least wherever H I (any neutral Hydrogen region) is found, but not in nebulae, which are more globular, rather than linear. Nebulae seem to have smaller filaments, but I wonder if the larger filaments also consist of smaller filaments (Another mainstream article quoted from another forum said they do).

MM: FYI, this comment caught my eye because in his book Plasma Cosmology, Alfven talks about plasma filaments within filaments (I'll try to look up the exact quote a bit later), with the ionization potential, and I assume mass, athough Alfven doesn't specifically mention mass, of each element determing which plasma sits inside and which plasma formed the outside layers of the concentric filaments.

MM: I think it is likely that there are concentric filament layers, at least in some cases, specifically in and around the highest energy concentration points of the universe.  I also suspect that we see such concentric filamentation in coronal loop activity, but I'm not sure how to demonstrate that just yet based on SDO imagery.   We just don't have that kind of resolution to work with IMO.