“The dirty secret of supernovae is that in the computer models, we can’t ever actually get them to do the final ignition. There always has to be an injected tri

“The dirty secret of supernovae is that in the computer models, we can’t ever actually get them to do the final ignition. There always has to be an injected trigger,” says Ashley Pagnotta at College of Charleston in South Carolina. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226326-black-holes-formed-from-dark-matter-could-be-making-dead-stars-explode/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226326-black-holes-for... With regard to the superluminal electrons above atomic number 137, it is apparently only a consequence of using a non-relativistic approximation. That apparently leaves the somewhat related issue of an imaginary ground state energy intact, though at a higher atomic number. Nice find!