--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > <snip> > > > Cool story, but I don't think supernovae blow up and fizz > > > out in a matter of seconds. Wikipedia says it takes several > > > weeks or months: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernovae>> > > > > Some of them certainly can appear and fizz out in seconds. >
> Um, no.>. Wrong. You need to understand the forces possible in far flung parts of the universe, not just base your thinking on local stellar objects. Some stars are very small and very powerful, and the extent of the blast can be a short distance. Certainly possible, probably common. And how would you explain a supernova occuring about 14 billion years ago, which to our time-frame would be close to the beginning of time, which, by our time-frame perspective had a different space-time structure, time was, in a sense, faster, and yet, the event, by our spatial perspective, is on the far-flung expanding edge of our known universe. To use simple linear and layman's thinking at this point will not suffice. Even the physicists cannot be sure how these events extrapolate into our time-space perspective. OffWorld
