Betelgeuse Explained
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At the beginning of 2020, the world held its collective breath as a nearby behemoth star, called Betelgeuse, start to dramatically fade.
Could this mean the 💣 star is about to go 💥
supernova? 👀 With the recent flutter of news activity settling down, we are now finally starting to understand what might have really happened. Today, we take a deep dive into what makes massive stars like this tick, and then get into how we might have now finally come up with answers to this bizarre event.
An educational video written and presented by Prof. David Kipping.
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0:00 Teaser
0:53 Massive Stars
7:07 Dying Massive Stars
12:47 Dimming 2020
17:36 Explaining the Dimming
AGelbert COMMENT:Homonid ancestors?
HOMONID DEFINITION: Any member of the family Hominidae, which includes human and human-like fossils from the Pleistocene Epoch.
The Evolution Theory based belief that present day humans have "Hominid" ancestors is not based on any scientific observation or fossil evidence. The topic of astrophysics, in which you are well versed in, should not be tainted with evolution based speculation. If you are serious about the science of how we came to be, you need to look at cell structure.
What Is a Molecular Machine and Why Is It Irreducibly Complex? Molecular machines are complex structures located inside of cells or on the surface of cells. An irreducibly complex machine is made of a number of essential parts, and all these parts must be present for it to function properly. If even one of these parts is missing the machine is non-functional.
Can Evolution Account for Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines? No.Evolution, which supposedly works in a stepwise fashion over long periods of time, can’t form these complex machines.
Evolution is not goal-oriented; it cannot work towards a specific outcome. If a part of the machine would happen to form by random chance mutation, but the other parts of the machine were not formed at the same time, then the organism containing that individual part (by itself non-functional) would not have a particular survival advantage and would not be selected for. Since the part offers no advantage to the organism, it would likely be lost from the population, and evolution would be back to square one in forming the parts for the machine.
Can Evolution Account for Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines? No.There is essentially no way to collect the parts over time because the individual parts do not have a function (without the other parts) and do not give the organism a survival advantage. Remember, all the necessary parts must be present for the machine to be functional and convey a survival advantage that could be selected for.
What About the Speculation by Evolutionists that Pre-adaptation Accounts for Irreducibly Complex Molecular Machines?Pre-adaptation is another “just so” evolutionary story that attempts to avoid the problems of necessary information gain and the goal-less nature of evolution. It fails to answer how parts that are intermediate between their old and new functions would be selected for and accumulated to build a molecular machine.
Michael Gray, cell biologist at Dalhousie University, states, “You look at cellular machines and say, why on earth would biology do anything like this? It’s too bizarre. But when you think about it in a neutral evolutionary fashion, in which these machineries emerge before there’s a need for them, then it makes sense.”
It only makes sense if you start with the presupposition that evolution is true (SEE: Circular Reasoning) and
confer powers to mutation and natural selection that the evidence shows they do not have.
Cool Worlds scientist, you do a lot of advanced mathematics to reach your conclusions and teach us about our universe in these videos. Your dedication to reality based physics is admirable. I just wish you would use your ample knowledge of factorial math probability and statistics to calculate the probability of random undirected complex protein formation processes steps producing life in a 14 billion year universe (or in a universe 100 times older, for that matter - deep time does not help here). Don't take my word for it, just do the math (see below):