Thread: More Evidence of Diversity in Supernova Ia
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Old 28-August-2007, 04:39 PM
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Most of the time, this is a valid syllogism, but supernova research is exceptional. The essential assumption in using supernova as standard candles is that the mass of each-and-every 'type Ia' event is very near the Chandrashakar critical mass of 1.6 solar.
You have yet to provide one cosmological SNIa paper that relies upon this assumption. Why do you continue to make this claim?