Little Red reionization factories
Proposes Little Red Dots as “reionization factories,” where a Weyl-curvature–driven Cosmic Tide funnels intergalactic HI into colliding streams that shock, compress, and trigger rapid starbursts whose LyC reionizes hydrogen. In this picture, hot HII escapes along interstitial directions, so reionization proceeds via outflowing plasma rather than requiring extreme photon escape fractions. The model predicts a gas-dominated rest‑optical continuum—HII bremsstrahlung with a minimum‑timescale red cutoff and an IR rollover from opacity—while the UV is stellar, naturally producing strong Balmer breaks. It also anticipates narrow+broad Balmer components and slightly shifted Balmer absorption from bulk‑moving n=2 HI, with a proof‑of‑concept SED fit to J1025+1402; the scenario is explicitly speculative.