About 24 hours after the flash of light (and gamma rays) from Supernova 1987A about 150,000 light-years
from earth in the Magellanic Cloud were observed, ~ 1.0 eV rest mass neutrinos from it were picked up by
the Japanese Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector.
The enormous electron - proton (Eo 0.51 MeV & 936 MeV rest mass) cosmic ray burst would follow later
according to the relativistic equation:
Gamma = Ekin/Eo + 1 = 1/[1 - (v^2/c^2)]^1/2 (Ekin can be 100s of GeV)
The velocity v of the electrons would be ~ 0.999 999 99c and that of the protons ~ 0.999 999c they
would hit the earth after traversing the ~ 150 thousand light-year distance in months-years, causing momentary
neutron spallation-transmutation of atoms in the atmosphere and all materials (there were several computer problems
generated on the Concorde and strange power outages on the Grid noted in 1988) including those
used in Pons and Fleischman's Cold Fusion experiment about March 29th 1989:
As would be expected, follow-up bursts of strange activity in materials and science laboratories
have been going on ever since.
Fred
