[decimon]

What could go wrong ping.

[SJSAMPLE]

Not even close.
However, if they’d been able to create the precedent STAR in a glass jar, we’d be in bidness.

[RichInOC]

Can they do one in a champagne bottle?

[Artemis Webb]

I don’t think we’ll be interested. You see we’ve already got one.

[WayneS]

...the detonation starts with a flame ball buried deep inside a white dwarf. The flame ball is much lighter than its surroundings, so it rises rapidly making a plume topped with an accelerating smoke ring

This is nothing new. The guy I buy my ‘shine from has been creating that same effect inside quart-sized Mason jars for YEARS...

[Waverunner]

My relatives in Georgia have been doing that for years.

[NavyCanDo]

My 9 Year Old can make a Tornado appear in his bedroom

[AZLiberty]

Soon to be “As Seen on TV”: My Pet Supernova.

[a fool in paradise]

A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature. A supernova is an exploding star.

That's nothing, Superman had a whole city from the exploded planet Krypton in a jar.

[DannyTN]

Sounds like they created a smoke ring, not a supernova.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The headline is a lie. The article doesn’t say that. Is this typical reporting hype? A supernova is a STAR. There are no stars the size that would fit in a jar.

[The Comedian]

Don't-cross-the-streams ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[frithguild]

[ItsForTheChildren]

A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature.

After a couple of burritos I can do that, too.

[DeFault User]

In a certain type of supernova, the detonation starts with a flame ball buried deep inside a white dwarf. The flame ball is much lighter than its surroundings, so it rises rapidly making a plume topped with an accelerating smoke ring.

I recall seeing one of these in a dark dorm room caused by a drunk sophomore and a Bic lighter. It was spectacular.

[3niner]

Complete and total BS.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. I wonder who has the patent on that glass? ;')

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[Little Ray]

IIRC, a supernova occurs when the iron (a product of other fusion reactions) in a star’s core tries to fuse. Ain’t no way they simulate that.

All they did was make a nice model of some shock waves.