Anyone can go and look at my posts and tusenfems/Tim posts and see that my description is consistent with experiment and observation, whereas Tim and tusenfems description is consistent with MHD and theory.
As far as I am concerned the type of science that you practice is called "scientism".
If you have issues with the description of the process in the paper I posted, address that. That would be considered science if you did that.
I have gone through the whole experiment and explained it all to you pages ago. You keep on coming with the "fact" that reconnection can only happen between flux tubes, because you only look at specific events. The lab experiment where
from first principles there are two interacting flux tubes or the specific case of a FTE (flux transfer event) but you eagerly neglect to look at the normal solar wind with southward magnetic field being pressed against the magnetopause, the compression of the magnetotail, the interaction of Ganymede's field with the Jovian magnetic field etc. etc. etc. The case in which flux tube(s) reconnect (because at an FTE there is only 1 flux tube) are special cases.
I have no issues with the paper(s), I have issues with the way you are interperting them and describing what happens, and using your own special lingo that does not jive with physics.
You're going to argue about the usage of the word "happen"?
The reconnection takes place, and then the plasmoid is pinched off of the filament. The plasmoid happens after the reconnection even though it is caused by the reconnection.
Do I have to say that every time?
Yes, "happen" is something that "takes place" not "something that is created." Had you said "a plasmoid is created" no problem, but the fact that you use "happen" shows that there is something wrong in the way you think about it.
Naturally, then we have not even started on "pinched off the filament" because that leaves much to be debated too.
Its good that you understand all that happens in between so that I dont have to repeat the whole story. We have an agreed upon knowledge base so that when I say something, the processes that take place to get to that point dont have to be reiterated!!!
AFAIK you have never written down all the processes that make up a substorm.
So as it stands you have not disagreed with the description in the paper.
So there it is folks.
Reconnection is driven by electric currents that makes flux tubes where the reconnection happens.
And naturally the boldes part is bogus. It may make sense in your mind, but totally misses what exactly is happening in reconnection. If one reads this, it gives the impression that you ahve a plasma, you drive a current through it and whammy reconnection happens, which naturally is absurd. The first requirement is that there is at least a field direction difference from which the fields get the possibility to reconnect.
Example, if I have the solar wind with "normal" northerly directed magnetic field, and it gets pressed to the magnetopause of the Earth, there will be currents (because of the pressure gradients in the field) but reconnection? NO WAY!