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Brightest Supernova Discovered
Maggie McKee writes "Astronomers have spotted the brightest supernova ever seen — it is intrinsically two to three times brighter than any previously recorded. It has many characteristics of a type Ia explosion, but has hydrogen in its spectrum, unlike other type Ia's. That suggests that this supernova resulted from the collision of two stars — most likely a white dwarf and a red giant — rather than from an exploding white dwarf. If so, it might affect the interpretation of previous cosmological studies that depend on type Ia 'standard candle' observations, like dark energy. But other astronomers say merger-triggered explosions are probably rare and therefore won't throw a wrench in the works."
And another invocation of stellar merging to explain the anomaly.
People, look at what's happening. Read the space news as a critical thinker. There isn't a week that goes by where the concept of stellar evolution isn't violated by some observation. Stellar evolution is an *assumption* that cannot possibly be proven or disproven because we won't be around long enough to see a star go through all of the steps of the process. It is completely based upon the idea that stars are nothing more than thermonuclear reactions. But our observations of the Sun do not support this concept:
1. The solar wind continues to accelerate past all of the planets as if those charged particles are within a weak electric field centered at the Sun.
2. The generation of neutrinos coming from the Sun correlates with the number of sunspots on the Sun's surface. We know that the sunspot cycle is a *magnetic* process on the *surface* of the Sun and the fusion model for the Sun proposes that the neutrinos should be generated within the deep core of the Sun. Those two steps of the process are supposedly separated by hundreds of thousands of years according to the solar fusion model. How is it possible that they are linked?
3. The surface of the Sun is around 6,000 K and the Sun's corona is around 2 million K. How is it possible that the energy generated at the core of the fusion-model Sun makes it to the corona without heating up the Sun's surface? Astrophysicists have proposed a concept called magnetic reconnections, but magnetic reconnections is completely pseudoscience. The concept of a magnetic field reconnecting and generating energy in the process is akin to a gravitational field reconnecting and generating energy. Neither can happen because field lines *never* reconnect any more than lines of latitude or longitude reconnect. Magnetic field lines are a smooth continuum. Furthermore, the points at which it is alleged that reconnection is happening -- the saddle points at the front of the "bow shock" as astrophysicists like to say -- is where the field strength is *zero*. And wherever the field strength is zero, the energy stored there at that point is also *zero*. No energy release can occur from any location at which no energy is stored. The fact that astrophysicists have been getting away with making these absurd statements regarding magnetic reconnections for decades now demonstrates the extent to which their field has run afowl of science. Any electrical engineer that hears about the details of magnetic reconnections should not stand for it, and they deserve some of the blame for not speaking louder about this. Millions of dollars are being poured into this concept right now.
Let me tell you a little story about astrophysics. Hannes Alfven, who is considered the father of plasma physics, and who received a nobel prize for this work, created the entire field of magnetohydrodynamics, which serves as the modern day basis for electricity and magnetism within astrophysics. Alfven proposed early in his career that electric currents do *not* flow through plasmas and that plasmas can be assumed to have "frozen in place" magnetic fields within them. Magnetohydrodynamics treats plasmas as fluids and assumes that they have little resistivity, so they are basically perfect conductors. In his acceptance speech for the nobel prize, he made a point of explaining that these earlier assumptions were certainly wrong, and although they may make things easier for astrophysics students, they will yield incorrect results in the real world. Modern day plasma physics are demonstrating all sorts of very unusual phenomenon, some of which can't even be said to follow Maxwell's Equations. It is now clear that the assumptions that the astrophysicists borrowed many years ago and refuse to revise in light of new findings are *wrong*. Alfven was completely ignored and the picture hasn't changed at all since then. Astrophysics students will tell you outright that electricity exists in space, but that it doesn't r
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