I'm amazed that some presumed political viewpoint has become a component of this discussion. Well, actually not considering...
So: "There is a chance that the researchers involved may just be able to write an actual choke spec that will allow a measurable extension in distance of bloom of the Gausian pattern. Now that would be remarkable."
Dang, Rocketman! The remarkable part is that we can pretty much do that now about as well as it will ever be done. Remember those stampings on the bbls or those markings on screw-ins??? That's them!
HTH
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Dr.WtS
I wonder if those nickle 5's were buffered? Sometimes it's possible to see a nice "Gaussian bloom" with buffered loads. But then, Digby is at a "we don't need no stinkin' buffer" level anyway.