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Saturday Evening Open Thread | 39 comments (39 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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After all, turbulent maghetohydrodynamics is harder than General Relativity.

Yeah... and if you have to combine the two...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 03:57:56 PM EST
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I suspect the fastest way to calculate a supernova explosion is to let it happen ;-)

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 04:12:48 PM EST
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Ah, supernova explosions are tame: I was thinking of gamma-ray bursts and quasars...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 04:28:48 PM EST
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Do we even know what causes those?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 04:34:08 PM EST
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Gamma-ray bursts? When I looked at the issue the last time, super-heavy stars collapsing into a black hole (which is a non-isotropic collapse) looked like themost promising model - but things change so fast in this field that I am probably behind the news.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 04:42:00 PM EST
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Re: Saturday Evening Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

A critical mass of railway diaries was the last theory I read...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Mar 11th, 2006 at 04:42:27 PM EST
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