--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
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.
>
> Nevertheless, supernovae are not seen from earth
> to flare up and die out in a matter of seconds.
>
You could be right, based on the recorded evidence, but I don't
think that rules out the probability that this could have been an
actual astronomical event witnessed from earth, yet not recorded
before? Possibly as some have suggested, something that looked like
a super nova, but wasn't. Who knows? I just figure the odds are in
the favor, given the vast size of the observable Universe, of a
newly discovered, or unrecorded event, not yet incorporated into our
current body of knowledge regarding observable astronomical
phenomenon. (whew- that's a mouthful).
