The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.
They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.
Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.
Who can discern his errors? Acquit me hidden faults.
Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. Psalm19

God made the heavens and the earth for us to marvel at and explore, He takes delight in us exploring the mysteries of Him and His creation. Everything in this universe was made through design and order. We are bound by a variety of different laws while living on this planet. Since the fall of man, God knew we could not follow His moral Law, so He sent His son, Jesus, to die in our place. The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23 If we believe and embrace Jesus and follow His teaching, we will have eternal life with God, instead of eternal separation from Him. God sent His Son to the world not to condemn the world but to save it. John 3:17

Search out all the mysteries but grasp the most important mystery of all…God's Word, His love letter to you, the Bible.

To put it mildly; Likely not.

I have seen three such flashes in my lifetime. They lasted less than a second.

I have seen three such flashes in my lifetime.
They lasted less than a second.

The last (recorded) naked-eye supernova was in 1604 – so I doubt it was one of those. A visible supernova would make all the newspapers!

There is no way we are looking at the bigger picture….I mean, of course its possible but we cant say for sure.

If the change in properties affects both particles with the same proportional effect, the observed relationship is preserved.

Good Day Sir

And watch out for the bears!

It could have been a straight-on meteor, it could have been an extraordinarily bright GRB (the only one that so far have been detected as naked-eye visible was about magnitude 5, barely visible from a dark sky)

But more likely is that it was an iridium flare, a reflection off of an Iridium satellite – they are quite common, and quite bright – on the order of brighter than Venus, at times.

It could not have been a supernova though, although very bright they are also much more long-lasting than that, even the ones with rapid decline

As for the findings, it doesnt prove laws of nature are the same everywhere, but it does limit the possible variations, And it is a find in support of one of the fundamental assumptions about our universe – yes, assumption, because proving that laws of nature dont change is currently beyond our capacity. But it does make more sense to assume that those laws are static, although we may only have a glimpse of what those laws in the end are.

But finding signfigant antimatter in the Universe wouldn't *violate* any known law of physics. (indeed, cosmologists can't say why that *isn't* so, though we'd likely not be here if there were) But there are other observations that strongly indicate that that's not so, either.

"While antimatter is interesting and all, personally I'm waiting for the discovery of a perfectly square planet.
Its the simple paradigm shifts that will wreak the most havoc."

But (assuming an Earth-mass planet) that would be the equuivalent of mountains thousands of miles high. We understand material strength and gravity well enough to rule that out. After all, part of the definition of a planet *is* a body massive enough to pul itself into essentially a spherical shape…

"…you stood on the beach at Cape Hatteras looked across the Atlantic with a spyglass and saw an oak tree, and by that determined that all trees in Europe are the same as those in North America."

If *every single* oak tree in North America were absolutely identical with each other, and the only one you could see in Europe was also identical to them, then that would not be an unreasonable assumption. Yes, you'd want a bigger sample of European oaks, but it's still not unreasonable.

I would guess you saw an "iridium flare" these are bright blue streaks of light. They don't follow the normal part of shooting stars instead they just last 1-2 seconds… They are reflections off reflective panels aboard a chain of un/ under used celluar phone sattlites.
Dan

If others saw the flash you are fine ….Multiple flashes seen by only you mean you should go to the emergency room and check for glaucoma and detached retina …you should do this eye exam each year anyway.
I hope you all didnt see a GRB .

I'll send you my bill.

Dr. Bob

Hence the result may be erroneous.

While antimatter is interesting and all, personally I'm waiting for the discovery of a perfectly square planet.
Its the simple paradigm shifts that will wreak the most havoc.