Orbiting Massive Particles…Closed Strings…Ice Halo…Earthquake?
Sun Halo appeared in Padang,Indonesia two days after The 7,6 Magnitude Earthquake destroyed surrounding areas, captured on October 02nd,2009 11.09 AM
If you look closely, there appear to be whispy cirrus like clouds streaming from the top left to the bottom right, which I believe are energetic vacuum particle string tracks. They will be creating the ice crystals that are refracting light. Massive particles can interact & orbit each other. The massive particle strings can also cause gravitational lensing.
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The halo has no relation with the earthquake. The halo appears when there are microcrystals of ice in cirrus clouds. It is much more common that most people think. Most of them are only visible if the viewer has sunglasses. Around here I use to see lots of halos, and I never ever had been on an earthquake 🙂
The particles create the cirrus clouds as they orbit. They do not always produce earthquakes. Hurricane Sandy was proceeded by many cirrus clouds, ice halos and interlocking rainbows. Many times cirrus clouds proceed severe weather, look it up. Cirrus clouds also appear on other planets.
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