Mc optically thick sphere

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Proposed changes

Add initial conditions for a homogeneous sphere (fluid variables only determined by whether we are inside or outside the sphere)

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Depends on #6355 (first five commits are from that PR)

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Updated so that first two commits match #6355 and third commit is the new work.
Note that in addition of creating input file options for MC, this PR fixes a bug in the initialization of the MortarData.