Timeline for Is there a way to create a bomb to destroy a star?
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | Type Ia supernovae require a white dwarf and a binary system. They are not core collapse supernovae. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | Sobrique | Yes. It's kinda vague, and ... well, somewhat offends my engineeering sensibilities - the equations predicting the 'hidden' mass is surprisingly consistent, which gives a reasonable basis to think it must be there. Maybe the gravity wave detectors give us some potential for 'finding' it. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 15:08 | comment | added | Jake | @Sobrique Based on something I read on the physics se, apparently dark matter is a catch all term for gravity without observed mass. That's where I read the Neptune example. | |
| Feb 18, 2016 at 15:06 | history | edited | Jake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | Jake | @Yakk Good catch. Edited. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 22:53 | comment | added | Yakk | 1a supernova only require ~1.4 solar masses total. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 18:57 | comment | added | thanby | Good point about the reference frames | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | Sobrique | Dark matter is weird stuff because no one really knows if it exists or what it is. It's just all the equations 'work' if you apply a particular fudge factor, that is consistent with a particular quantity of 'missing' mass. So as a Sci-fi 'thing' dark matter could be practically anything, and thus really well suited for 'putting out' stars. | |
| Feb 17, 2016 at 4:17 | history | answered | Jake | CC BY-SA 3.0 |