{"id":98485,"date":"2019-11-13T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/double-down"},"modified":"2019-11-13T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:00:44","slug":"double-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/double-down","title":{"rendered":"Double Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/double-down.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stars explode. But how?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2221871-weve-finally-figured-out-what-happens-when-a-star-explodes\/\">press<\/a> release asks, \u201cWhat happens when a star explodes?\u201d The answer, not surprisingly, is, \u201c\u2026the same thing that happens when gas explodes here on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Electric Universe agrees with modern physics: a supernova is an exploding star. However, there is much more to the story that involves plasma. Electricity flowing through plasma creates regions of charge separation isolated by double layers. Could charge separation be the foundation for supernovae?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars explode. But how? A recent press release asks, \u201cWhat happens when a star explodes?\u201d The answer, not surprisingly, is, \u201c\u2026the same thing that happens when gas explodes here on Earth.\u201d The Electric Universe agrees with modern physics: a supernova is an exploding star. However, there is much more to the story that involves plasma. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}