Sun Goes Supernova What's Left

[guardiandashi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova

may be helpful

considering that the stars that will go into a supernova state (typically) are comparable to the sun as the sun is to the earth the odds of people being able to affect them .... well you have better odds of winning the lottery multiple times back to back.

[Weirdo]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

A bit of food for thought... ;)

[winteriscoming77]

I came in here expecting the typical inaccurate and completely unscientific "nerd" rationalizations, but instead found accurate and serious discussion.  I'm impressed.

[St.George]

I find it ironic that the Sci/Discovery channels seem to play a lot of the shows that delt with Supernovas this weekend when this subject took-off and people started coming up with answers.It's easier to watch "How the Universe works" to "Trust me,,,,,I read it somewhere/Goggle".Everyone here has the basics down,,,,but nobody knows 100% what happens,,,,,just use the work Singularity

[pfarland]

When you say nobody knows, you are summing it up quite well.  We still have yet to be able to accurately model a supernova with a computer.  There is something we've been missing, though we're getting closer!

[cray]

From the perspective of a star's core, would that make a difference?

Nope. You're annihilating a few grams of stellar matter and embedding a (comparatively) diffuse cloud of JumpShip atoms in the very dense core of a star. As noted in Strategic Operations and the earlier Star League Sourcebook, interpenetrating two JumpShips doesn't result in total annihilation of two ships. A stellar core isn't going to notice the new impurities.

Comparatively, if you detonate the Tsar Bomba and then teleport a bacterium into the heart of the fireball when it's a few hundred meters across, does anyone notice?

Also, if the energy required for a jump would be partially used to annihilate mass at destination point

It's not all that much energy. Really, granting that a KF drive can annihilate a few grams of matter is orders of magnitude beyond the canonical kilowatt-hours established for a jump. Crunch the numbers: you've got a disk about 1km across at 10.4AU from solar. At perfect efficiency over 176 hours, how many kilowatt-hours are intercepted?

It's not all that much compared to even adjusting a JumpShip's velocity by some tens of kilometers a second as it matches the velocity of its target star system.