How to hold a dead star in your hand (Synopsis)

“The vast majority of elements beyond hydrogen found on Earth were created inside a massive star and blown back into the interstellar medium in a catastrophic supernova explosion.”

More “homogeneity” in action!
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Some questions for Kim Kowal Arcand on her Forbes article:

“One such supernova remnant that Chandra studies is Cassiopeia A. About 400 years ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, a star that was about 15 to 20 times the mass of our Sun, detonated in a supernova explosion.”

How long will the remnants of Cassiopeia A be detectable? Anywhere close to the way the CMB is said to be detectable after 13.8 billion years?

“Because Cassiopeia A is the result of an explosion, the stellar debris is expanding radially outwards from the explosion center. Using simple geometry and the Doppler effect, we can create a 3-D model.”

Kim, if WE are 3-dimensional and Cassiopeia A was 3-D, isn’t are universe 3-D?
Why, using simple geometry and the Doppler effect and whatever, can’t we create a 3-D model of our universe?
Because I want to know where the center of our 3-D universe is, where the Big Banged.

“It’s all about understanding our origins. You know, those three questions that are, I think, so common, that we ask ourselves: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? What can be more exciting than those questions.”

I think I can answer for the atheist scientism-ists here:

“Where do we come from?”
From a Big Bang that went from a teeny point to the size of a marble to the size of what we have now.

“What are we?”
A peculiar collection of atoms no better or worse than any other collection of atoms.
What we call “life” is just a very rare and very recent "natural" anomaly in the 13.8 billion year history of what is.

“Where are we going?"
We are going to die,
and maybe have our atoms mixed in with a future cantaloupe or comet.

Very exciting, indeed.

Because I want to know where the center of our 3-D universe is, where the Big Banged.

How many times will you ignore the explanation?

http://math dot ucr dot edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html

http://spaceplace dot nasa dot gov/review/podcasts/transcripts/070523_universe.html

Did the Universe expand from a point? If so, doesn't the universe have to have an edge?
No. The Big Bang was not an explosion IN space. It was a process that involved ALL of space. This misconception causes more confusion than any other in cosmology. Unfortunately, many students, teachers, and scientists(!) mistakenly picture the "Big Bang" as an explosion that took place at some location in space, hurtling matter outward.

In reality, ALL of space was filled with energy right from the beginning. There was no center to the expansion, and no magical point from which matter hurtled outward. The confusion arises in part because of the amazing conclusion that the OBSERVABLE portion of the universe was once packed into an incredibly tiny volume. But that primordial pellet of matter and energy was NOT surrounded by empty space... it was surrounded by more matter and energy (which today is beyond the region we can observe.) In fact, if the whole universe is infinitely large now, then it was always infinite, including during the Big Bang as well.

To put it another way, the current evidence indicates only that the early universe - the WHOLE universe - was extremely DENSE - but not necessarily extremely small. Thus the Big Bang took place everywhere in space, not at a particular point in space.

from
https://www dot cfa dot harvard.edu/seuforum/faq.htm

Not that anybody expects you to read any of those items, or try to understand them if you did.
But, the next time you scream "where is the center of the universe? Why won't anyone tell me? like a five year old, we have another place to point and say "You were given an explanation, you simply wouldn't look at it."

Oh, G-d, I can't help myself.

“Because Cassiopeia A is the result of an explosion, the stellar debris is expanding radially outwards from the explosion center. Using simple geometry and the Doppler effect, we can create a 3-D model.”

Kim, if WE are 3-dimensional and Cassiopeia A was 3-D, isn’t are universe 3-D?
Why, using simple geometry and the Doppler effect and whatever, can’t we create a 3-D model of our universe?
Because I want to know where the center of our 3-D universe is, where the Big Banged.

The stalwart ignorance and sin of pride are strong in S.N.

^ Almost forgot:

Some questions for Kim Kowal Arcand on her Forbes article

Is there some reason that you're not posing these at Forbes?

Thanks for the article, Kim & Ethan. Looks like a 3D project for the weekend coming up !
:)

Rather than classifying palate by energy it would have been interesting to classify by element. In theory we know where the elements reside in the pre-exploded star, so a 3D model of their current locations and velocity should allow the event modeling from pre-explosion all the way through to now.

It occurs to me that this would also be an excellent time for S.N. to detail his understanding of Doppler redshifts, which he apparently accepts, viz.,

Why, using simple geometry and the Doppler effect and whatever, can’t we create a 3-D model of our universe?

and cosmological redshifts, which he rejects:

I may be more there than you’re there.
But I’ll give you possible partial credit for saying the expansion is “a legitimate POSSIBILITY”.
However, if you meant it was a legitimate possibility back in Einstein’s time but TODAY is a FACT, then, I won’t be giving you any credit.

@Denier #6: That's a very interesting idea! I'm not sure that it would work -- my understanding from numerical simulations is that core-collapse supernovae are extremely turbulent, so the different "onion layers" get quite thoroughly mixed in the debris. Additionally, the extremely high neutron flux drives the "r-process", which produces all of the heavy elements we know and love :-)

@Michael Kelsey #8

That is the fun of science. Hold your breath and hope observations match theory or figure out why they didn't.

If the Supernova happened 400 hundred years ago then how can we see it given that it is 10000 lightyears away?

@Heistenberg #10: The star was seen to explode on Earth 300-400 years ago.

" Because I want to know "

No, you don't want to know, you want to believe your fairy story is true.

That;'s what you WANT. All your JAQing off is merely to pretend in public that you're genuine, when it's apparent to every sentient being you aren't in the least.

further to #11, that means the star blew up 10,400-ish years ago. It took 10,000-ish years for the light to travel and got here 400-ish years ago.

And here, 0 years ago, we're talking about it.