supernova

[General Baxter]

http://www.univie.ac.at/strv-astronomie/unterhaltung/good-nova.gif

[hendrix]

astronomy....wait for phil :lol:

[Marc]

There is plenty on this site :D [/quote]

[Philsutton]

some thing interesting at last, its basically a big ass space explosion. I cant be arsed to explain as i have a big headache

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/gifs/sn87a.gif

boooooooom

[General Baxter]

how can there be an explosion in space as it needs oxygen to burn?

[Philsutton]

its not burning that happens in space, the pressures an temperatures are that high that the atoms themselves break down into the particles that make them.
This is where all elements come from, the stars. The process that takes place inside the sun creates all the elements in the universe, which start out as hydrogen. So no they dont burn

[-Bruce-]

its not burning that happens in space, the pressures an temperatures are that high that the atoms themselves break down into the particles that make them.
This is where all elements come from, the stars. The process that takes place inside the sun creates all the elements in the universe, which start out as hydrogen. So no they dont burn

That interesting stuff phil. Never understood how things could burn in space. Now i know they dont burn the atoms explode. Cheers

Bruce

[Philsutton]

i could have explained it much much better but i really cant be bothered to sit here a write pages. Black holes are interesting, very interesting. I suggest you read into them as some of the things you wont be able to get your head round.

[Jack]

Phil do you have any links on that? I'm quite intrigued by it.

[Philsutton]

To understand black holes you really need to have a n understanding of general relativity.
Here are some links that you might find interesting
http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blkbh.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/blackholes.html
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_intro.html
You'll probably come away after reading it having more questions than before.

[Philsutton]

also while we are on the subject have a look at this site, it has some of the theories that steven hawkings has put forward. Again they make a good reading and some very strange things that have been suggested.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/lindex.html

[Jack]

Interesting.


When I gave a lecture in Japan, I was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, because it might affect the stock market.
:lol:

[Philsutton]

lol, so how does that affect the stock market then

[Stuart]

farting effects the stock market ffs! lol

[hendrix]

lol it feels like im in a lecture phil!!
doin a course this yr on relativity and cosmology as taught by some russian dude. its well interesting but relativity can be hard to get ur head around!! :lol:

[Philsutton]

i got some women teaching us quantum mathmatics, thing is she talks just like borat. Whhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy lol Makes it quite hard at times i cant even understand her.
http://www.crossword.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2004/08/11/ixbvborat230.jpg

[Jack]

on my HND the lecturer trying to teach us ASP could only speak very broken chinglish, but made up for lack of vocabulary diversity by screeching at volume... lol

[Philsutton]

lmao oh god when you also tell when she gets excited talk about these equations as she starts to shout an makes weird squeeking noise, its quite scary