In trying to understand the surprise, wonder and skepticism that have greeted the paper by David Thomson, Carol Maclennan and Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Labs in the 13 July issue of Nature, it helps to remember a few salient facts. First, the authors claim that the solar wind has components that oscillate in a coherent, stable manner. This claim contradicts the standard view that the solar wind is turbulent and possesses no long‐lived structures, other than those associated with solar rotation and structure.

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