But really I was duplicating something I did when I was making
   an animatedgif for Wikipedia's Efimov state:
   [1]http://system-of-systems.com/efimov_scaling.gif
   [the "halo effect" - a certain configuration of three electrons
   I think it is... seem to do this magical thing:

   They seem to expand outwards at a PRECISE rate, forming
   outwardly expanding versions of itself ALMOST to the visual
   range. [nearly as large as a 'mote' - or speck of dust].

   It was only a theory for 40 years; one of those myths that
   physicists didn't want to believe in, mostly because it came
   from a Russian.

   But then, they found it. Once they did, they saw it over and
   over and over again. I found it pretty inspirational.

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   1. http://system-of-systems.com/efimov_scaling.gif