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- ryland2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16your user name pretty much sums up that comment.
- freff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17FTFA: Instead of investing in particle accelerators here on Earth, physicists might consider just blowing up a few stars.
This seems to me to be an extraordinarily bad idea. - extols, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13At first look I thought this might have been a torrent (suprnova) related story...
- sooperdooper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9omg, that really was lame...
ryland2 beat me, but I've wanted to say that for a couple days now - MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The scientists are inexperienced with this sort of thing. They'll have to ask Samantha Carter for tips on blowing up stars.
- blindbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Bad idea? It's not like the Sun is doing anything important or any... Oh wait... nevermind.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I, too, was intrigued at the prospect of a former torrent website becoming a galactic entity.
- sooperdooper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8scientists study them to ascertain the, um...
Magic!!! - mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4does anyone know exactly what energized charged particles are used for?
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The person posting this doesn't seem to understand what the article implies.
"Instead of investing in particle accelerators here on Earth, physicists might consider just blowing up a few stars."
Yes, supernovas yield many near light speed particles, but they're so random that it wouldn't be a good source for any kind of scientific experiment. You'll never know when where or what kind of particle you'll get, or at what speed. If you're mashing particles together, this makes for very unreliable calculations. I don't recall the exact specifics, but most particles do not reach the surface of the earth.
However studying the particles that do fall to the surface of the earth can display a great deal of knowledge. An emission of neutrinos allowed for the first supernova ever recorded to be observed.
Studying high velocity particles is important, but don't think that they're good for a particle accelerator. - jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is hardly news. Supernova remnants have been known to be the source of very energetic cosmic rays for decades.
When a supernova pops, many times the core of the old star that exploded stays in tact. It retains the angular momentium and magnetic field of the progenitor star and since it is much smaller, the stellar core spins very rapidly. The action of the magnetic field being pulled through the gas of the supernova remnant creates pulses of radio energy- hence the name pulsars.
Pulsars, or neutron starts as they are sometimes called, exist in a bizaar hyper-dense state in which atoms are squashed into a neutron soup surrounded by clouds of electrons on its surface. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Until I read the description I thought it was a story about the old Supernova bittorrent site...
- beckerist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any joke that has to be explained is...well...lame.
- jamessavik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1energized charged particles- in one form, you call it electricity.
- creighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What does Tommy Lee and Jason Newstead's new band have to do with particle accela-whatever?
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I honestly thought this article was going to be about suprnova's remnants and how its accelerating torrents
- pgup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What a nice new background I have now.
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Isn't this just spam? Looks to me like the submitter is just talking about himself...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1http://blendedexposures.blogspot.com/2006/10/supermassive-black-hole.html
- 6502programmer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Someone be sure to let the president know that he need not content himself with causing countries to implode. Now he can spearhead the implosion of stars. We're talking thermoNUKulear here!
- NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2
- mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@ ellisgl
If it the next big bang were to happened in our lifetime, we wouldn't live to see it anyways, we'd have to all get sucked into some blackholes first... :( - Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Ok, fine.
Let's have a couple scientists hop up into space and head to the NEXT closest star to try it out. They can let us know in a few hundred years if it worked, meanwhile we'll have harnessed wormholes and hyperdrive technology on our own here at home...
/end sarcasm - ellisgl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Yeah sounds like a bad, a very bad idea. I don't want to live to see the next "Big Bang"
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