On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:12:21 John Summerfield wrote:
How do you know Helium goes bang? Has anyone heard it?
In a supernova. ;-)
That means that if you heard it you will not be here to tell about it. :-)
I remember fondly my presentation about the Chandrasekhar limit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
in the third year of astrophysics. :-)
Arne proposed a lighter gas, one that burns, goes bang[1] etc etc.
[1] Another of my experiments gone wrong. My own hydrogen bomb.
I understood that the reference was hydrogen but I had decided to double the
bet. ;-)
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John
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