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Supernovas

Supernovas. Barrett Neath and Brendan Martin. Video. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAjQDatyoY&feature=player_embedded (0:00-3:12) http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4l6jqKL5Qo&feature=player_embedded (0:25-4:19) Supernova Description (Brendan pg. 30) . Reverend Robert Evans.

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Supernovas

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  1. Supernovas Barrett Neath and Brendan Martin

  2. Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAjQDatyoY&feature=player_embedded • (0:00-3:12) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4l6jqKL5Qo&feature=player_embedded • (0:25-4:19) • Supernova Description (Brendan pg. 30)

  3. Reverend Robert Evans • Finds Supernovae • Dying stars • Able to find minute differences in the sky • “Imagine a standard dining room table covered in a black tablecloth and someone throwing a handful of salt across it. The scattered grains can be thought of as a galaxy. Now imagine fifteen hundred more tables like the first one[,] each with a random array of salt across it. Now add one grain of salt to any table and let Bob Evans walk among them. At a glance he will spot it. That grain of salt is the supernovae.” (Bryson, 30)

  4. Supernovae • The explosions created by dying stars • Stars are usually larger than our sun • Releases energy of a hundred billion suns “burning for a time brighter than all the stars in the galaxy.” (Bryson, 30) “It’s like a trillion hydrogen bombs going off at once,” –Robert Evans • Biggest events in creation • Cause of cosmic rays • Term “Supernova” was created by Fritz Zwicky • Finding Supernova Quote (Brendan pg. 33)

  5. Fritz Zwicky • Bulgarian Astronomer • Not very intelligent • Had moments of genius • Supernovae • Fritz Zwicky Quote (Brendan pg. 31-32) • Recognized that there wasn’t enough visible mass to hold galaxies together • Dark Matter • Dark matter is created whenever new matter is created • Antiprotons • Antineutrons • Star Explosion Quote (Brendan pg. 36)

  6. Demonstration • Average flashlight – 24 watt hours • One stick of TNT – about 13 flashlights • First Hydrogen Bomb – 10,000,000 tons of TNT • Supernova – 1,000,000,000 Hydrogen Bomb • Average flashlight • Powered continuously for 19,444,444,000,000,000,000 hours – 19.4 pentillion hours • 2.2 million billion years • 2,219,685,400,000,000 years

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