Is this a different phenomenon than sun pillars? In those cases, I believe the cause is a particular shape of ice crystal, but perhaps in this case the geometry is caused by the fact the scattering substance is only present in that column, rather than scattering in a preferred direction.
My dog loves to put the side of his snout against the snow, and plow. Then he flips onto his back and does a little wriggle back and forth before flipping over again and standing up. Rinse and repeat. Is that anything like what Daisy is doing here?
Physicists are notorious for approximating, and astronomers are even worse. But there are some subfields where they care about being more precise, and you maybe break the periodic table into a handful of elements plus alphas. And there's that one or two people getting exquisite spectral resolution and signal-to-noise on a few stars and measuring the abundance of Technetium or whatever.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. (Acts 4:32-35)
Wow, those apostles and primitive Christians completely missed the metaphor!
If that doesn't work, you could always deport as many vulnerable members of the lowest stratum of society, so you couldn't work the factories even if you had the materials.
Is this a different phenomenon than sun pillars? In those cases, I believe the cause is a particular shape of ice crystal, but perhaps in this case the geometry is caused by the fact the scattering substance is only present in that column, rather than scattering in a preferred direction.