An unexpected incident

04 September 2009

An explosion in a fascinating thing to consider. Of course, the first law of thermodynamics creates an interesting puzzle of potential and kinetic and unstable energy. How could such an apparent imbalance be a reality?

But there it is, all the same: A nearly minute quantity of potential-packed matter instantaneously becomes an extraordinarily large and beautifully violent living bouquet of saffron and magma,

And then ash.

Can you imagine what it is to be that pregnant bomb sitting still, containing quietly a supernova in miniature?