ScienceCasts: Superflares

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Something is exploding in the Crab Nebula ten billion times more powerful than a solar flare. These "superflares" are baffling astronomers who haven't yet figured out the source of the blasts.

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[MrSwedenik]

what, no fair, I wanna see a supernova

[subh1]

In classical physics, any accelerating charge particle releases electromagnetic radiation and loses energy - a direct consequence of Maxwell's eqns. In specific, it's called "Bremsstrahlung". Quantum stationary states were introduced in the first place to explain the violation of this classical law for electrons around atom. The classical picture can be derived from the quantum picture at the limit by observing that **free space is almost a continuum of stationary states**.

[docatomics]

☢☢☢ hum April 16, 2011

= wounder what the view was like from Fukushima

+ lots of blue neutron beams eye hear, coming from the MOX scatterings ?

~ stop changing my comments paid shill hacks !

[docatomics]

...hum April 16, 2012,

=wounder what the view was like from Fukushima

+any blue neurtorn beams ?

[Bucboy1001]

Someday you will find me caught beneath a landslide, in a Champagne Supernova in the sky...

[ChaosButterfly8]

> > (×̯×) < <

[MrSwedenik]

I just subdiddilyscribed

[STARCO1231]

u use big words.

[johnello]

life is there

[nutCaseBUTTERFLY]

The electrons themselves generate gamma rays?

I was under the impression that a quantum jump is needed to generate electromagnetic radiation. If the electrons are free, how can they do a quantum jump if they are not a part of an atom?