some think it is possible…

Supernovas are still mysterious to a lot of astronomers and their properties are not fully understood.  Most conventional astronomers believe them to be the resul tof a star burnt out falling in on itself.  Then it makes a ginormous explosion outward after the collapse.  That may be likely but what about the gamma rays that are associated with the event?  Here is an intro about a video examining the possibilities:

Ever since he was a teenager, Stan Woosley has had a love for chemical elements and a fondness for blowing things up. Growing up in the late 1950s in Texas, “I did everything you could do with potassium nitrate, perchlorate, and permanganate, mixed with a lot of other things,” he says. “If you mixed potassium nitrate with sulfur and charcoal, you got gunpowder. If you mixed it with sugar, you got a lot of smoke and a nice pink fire.” He tested his explosive concoctions on a Fort Worth golf course: “I screwed the jar down tight and ran like hell.”

Kaboom!

Woosley, now an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has graduated to bigger explosions—much bigger. Woosley studies some of the most powerful explosions since the birth of the universe: supernovae, the violent deaths of stars.

Trip out…

Let’s watch a video of suparnovas and hear an explanation on the effect of these rays page 2

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