--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I don't know the exact time Doug died or wether it coincided > > > > at all with me walking out the dome around 6.45 - 7pm in the > > > > evening, but that is my story of having seen (maybe) a supernova. > > > > > > > > > > OffWorld > > > > > > > > > > Cool story, but I don't think supernovae blow up and fizz > > > > > out in a matter of seconds. > > > > > > > > Not even one? In the whole wide entire universe? > > > > > > Supernovae are *stars*, remember...too much Stuff > > > involved to be done with that fast. > > > > > > Could've been something even more exotic, but not > > > a supernova.>> > > > > > > The speed of the flare up would entirely depend upon the size of the > > star compared to the forces around it, and how far it into space it > > flared up. If the distance that the expansion occured was only a > > short one and the power behind the initial implosion and consequent > > explosion were very high, plus the environmental forces in the region > > (including gravity) did not restrict the expansion phase, then > > certainly short duration supernova's are possible and probably very > > common. > > Are those still called "supernovae?">>
If you are in the vicinity of on of them, for example, in the far reaches of the so-called "dark-zone", then they often have another word for them, but I don't remember it.... :-) Seriously though, I think so, because what I am talking about is the same phenomena, smaller in scale, more powerful, shorter lived (athough main-stream (read: lagging) theory, suggests there must be a certain mass -- although mass has nothing to do with size when it comes to stars, therefore, the distance covered could minute, and yet super-powerful and luminous) Space contains regions that have different ratios of the elements of the structure of space-time and these are very different from our region in the way the energies can have lesser or higher impacts on their surroundings, and even the speed of light becomes variable ad breakable. An analogy would be that, imagine a giant man 3,000 feet tall walking on Earth, what an impact that would have, but the same man walking on a planet the 10 times the size of Jupiter or bigger, he would seem vulnerable and minute and the impacts would be completely unrelated. OffWorld
