In reply to Rick Monteverde's message of Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:43:39 -1000: Hi, [snip] ><wildspeculation> Since the event seemed to develop 'slowly' at first, how >about this - a bubble of H & O2 did develop and ignite, but in a burn still >slow and/or small enough to be mechanically absorbed by the system. As the >fuel was consumed, then - perhaps even synchronously with a returning shock >wave from the walls of the vessel from the initial burn - the bubble collapses >down against the site of reactions on the screen, causing a tiny supernova. ></wildspeculation> [snip] More wildspeculation; Supernovas may be triggered by hydrino formation and collapse when the He3 level at the surface of a large star gets high enough. (It almost has to be at the surface, because the core is too hot to allow much H to exist).
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