Tim. I believe the only peer-reviwed journal article for a successful explosion was first claimed by the Russians, Leinson & Oraevskii (sp?..I'll check) in the Soviet Journal of Nuclear Physics circa 1986-8. In it they claimed a 30 % larger total cross section for neutrino scattering due to spin waves in the core (magnons). pete

see:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989PZETF..49...65L

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A third rate theory forbids.
A second rate theory explains after the fact.
A first rate theory predicts.
A. Lomonosov