If you put an atom, or a molecule, just one into the vacuume, it is no longer a perfect vacuume. Therefore you must agree that to create a plasmatic effect you need some matter. Since that atom has to come from somewhere it is either there all the time in a huge cloud all the way around the nucleus of the comet, or it has to be accelerated to that point in space from within the comet. I didn't measure the length of even one comets tail, I take it as a fact that somebody knowledgeable measured at least one comet tail at ten million kilometers in length. If that ionizing molecule, or atom came from the comet and made it to the end of the 10 million kilometer tail without benefit of a supercolider to accelerate it then it had to do so at less than the speed of light. It would therefore have to appear as an arc as the head of the comet slowly turned toward the sun. Since it did not appear as such then it must have been there all along, waiting for the radiation bombardment which caused it to ionize. This would mean that the entire model of the anatomy of a comet is severely flawed.

Like wise if it were sunlight reflecting thru a an Ice crystal, that Ice crystal also would have to be either there all along, or accelerated by unknown means from the comet at multiples of the speed of light. And it too would look like an arc as it moved from the comet. Since it does not look like an Arc, there has to be another mechanism for this to occur.

Here is the hard part for a person of your ilk to wrap his mind around. The tail of the comet must be equal distance from the viewer as the beginning of it. And this is possible if, and as far as I can tell, only if there are numerous ice crystals all around the comet for a distance of at least the aparent length of the tail in all directions, and only if they are all in very nearly the same plane. Alignment can come because of solar wind acting as drag, and gravity acting as the accelerant force. But it is not the light of the sun, but the luminoscity of the coma that can cause the effect. The actual ice crystals you are viewing and perceiving as the far end of the tail are instead coming toward you at an angle of twenty two degrees from the aparent angle of the perceived one aiming away from the sun.

Just like the aparent light above the street lights here, the far end of the aparation beam is actually the same distance from the viewer as the start of it. The same could be true with the comet. Most light which enters the ice crystal just goes on thru, but light gets refracted within the crystal at an angle of 22 degrees incident to the plane of the ice crystal.

Don't ask me to explain how we get from 360 degrees to 22 degrees, I have had it explained to me and I don't understand. But the ice crystal is flat with six equal sides on the circumference of its disk like shape.

I don't know why sublimated ice crystals always form this shape, they just do.

The fact is that Ice exists in open space. That is at the heart of any comet theory and I do not dispute it. When that ice is heated to the trip point by its proximity to the sun it wants to turn to water, but it can't because of the near vacuume in which it exists it boils away and evaporates into vapor. A Gas which will exist in space. When it cools to a point just south of -30 degrees farenheit water vapor, the gas, again converts back into ice. But now it is no longer bonded to the body of the comet. It along with free hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gasses are free to mingle in the coma. When heated by the sun the coma expands as the molecules which make it up become exicted and some achive escape velocity which is very lwo on a body as small as a comet. Once free of the coma, the ice crystals and hydrogen and oxygen are free to disburse by normal difusion methods. At some point they are so difuse as to become nearly invisible. While they are free of the comets small gravity. They are still in orbit and in complete hold by the sun. Thus they continue to orbit the sun on a very similar orbit to the comet from which they are now released.

I know this is possible because of my knowlege and experience.

Just like you know things I do not, I know things which you do not.

The only thing you are right about in this situation is my arrogance in expecting that I, and seemingly only I if you judge from your and a couple of others postings understand the aparitional features of a comet. I may be a fool living in the bliss of my ignorance. If so, then so be it.

But remember one thing. I have seen and experienced these effects. I have studied and stand upon the knowledge of others, smarter than I who provided me with the tools to understand what I am seeing. You in your closet with your tools probably haven't even seen a sublimated ice cloud. I have. Do not try to tell me they have nothing in common with comets until you have the same knowledge and experience to draw from.

By the way, the speed of light is generally accepted as 186,000 miles a second or 700 million miles an hour. Thats pretty close to 8 or 9 seconds from the sun to the earth.

Now in your post you said that and I quote "B.S.!!! Where do you come up with such nonsense? If you ionize a material in a vacuum you can accelerate it and have it move through the vacuum..."

This is a nonsense statement. If there is a material in a vacuume, it is not a vacuume. It is a low density solid, a low density gas, or a low density liquid. And it makes my case. You have to get that material from the coma of the comet to the tail of the comet without the tail appearing curved. It has to move at super light speed to do that! A tail 10 million kilometers long takes time to get that long and even at light speed it would take. Unless the material is already there, which again reinforces my contention that the model of the comet anatomy is incorrect. In the cold of space, especially in the shadow of a comet occasional molecules of water vapor could easily hit the trip point where they turn back into an ice crystal. (-30 degrees)

You are correct that I don't do the science. I merely study the works of many and use that information to understand what I see and apply it to what I know. I then apply that knowledge to make things easier for others. Unlike you I actually apply science to usefull purpose instead of studying it to death.

P.S. While I do install wireless internet connectivity, it is far from my only business, but you wouldn't know that. Hard to believe what with you knowing everything about everything and all. I will pay attention to anything I want, speculate about anything I want at any time I want, experiment with what ever I want when ever I want. If you don't like it, stuff it, I am going to do it anyway. If you don't want amatuers like me posting to this board simply have me removed. I am sure you can do so if you want. The moderator seems to like you.

If you would get out of your lab and study the works of others, you might be able to see how narrowly focused you are. There are other explanations, ones that don't rely on unproven theory, and ones that are beyond your experiments.