Daylight is fading over a grass-covered field. Looking like extra-large bee hives, 252 white cabins on short stilts are regularly distributed across its vast expanse of 44,000 square metres. A larger 'house' occupies the space of the central 4 units. At the centre of each square block of 16 cabins is set a two-tier, highly reflective, cylindrical device. As darkness envelops the array, shortlived flashes of light erupt unpredictably from the 16 devices. Sometimes one launches alone. At other times they evoke straight lines, or neat clusters. Or just flicker here and there. The flashes are so rapid and apparently random that our eyes search in vain for a repeated pattern. Logic appears to be defied. What are we witnessing? A high-tech scientific experiment? Some sci-fi setting for a war of the worlds? An evocation of a night-time bombing raid?
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