Mental grain size shifts don't take time properly into consideration.

[tar]

I have a problem trying to consider a question such as "how many supernovas does the Milky Way, have in a decade.

 

How can a thing so big as a galaxy, where it takes light itself 100 thousand years to get from one end to another, do ANYTHING at once?

Edited November 6, 2013 by tar

[Strange]

I guess the point is that the galaxy isn't behaving as a single entity. There are so many stars that they appear to act in a consistent way: there is a distribution of stars of different ages and types, therefore the number that go nova in a year is just a statistical calculation. It might vary from none in one year to many in another.

[tar]

Strange,

 

Well, I think you just proved my point. A super nova, within the Milky Way could have happened 10 years ago 100 years ago, yesterday, or tomorrow, and we might not see any of them for 50 thousand years. The Milky Way is a big place and you have mentally considered it one thing that you can comprehend at once.

 

Regards, TAR2