The Spin-Torsion Energy Available at Supernova Bounce Is Too Small to Power Any Part of the Explosion

This paper addresses a specific claim by arithmetic: that spin-torsion energy released at the density bound could contribute to exploding a collapsing star. At the density where a real core bounces, 3e17 kg per cubic metre, the torsion energy density on the neutron branch is 8.324e-07 joules per cubic metre, and integrated over a 10 km core it totals 3.487e+06 joules. Against a canonical explosion energy of 1e44 joules that is a fraction 3.49e-38, and against the full neutrino energy budget of 1e46 joules it is 3.49e-40. The claim therefore fails by roughly forty orders of magnitude: whatever revives the stalled shock, it is not torsion energy at the bound, because at stellar densities there is essentially no torsion energy to release. This is a disproof of the claim as stated, computed from the bound's own formula. Simulated, not measured.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-11
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24134375
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Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
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The Spin-Torsion Energy Available at Supernova Bounce Is Too Small to Power Any Part of the Explosion

William Alexander Aldred
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
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The Spin-Torsion Energy Available at Supernova Bounce Is Too Small to Power Any Part of the Explosion

William Alexander Aldred
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This paper addresses a specific claim by arithmetic: that spin-torsion energy released at the density bound could contribute to exploding a collapsing star. At the density where a real core bounces, 3e17 kg per cubic metre, the torsion energy density on the neutron branch is 8.324e-07 joules per cubic metre, and integrated over a 10 km core it totals 3.487e+06 joules. Against a canonical explosion energy of 1e44 joules that is a fraction 3.49e-38, and against the full neutrino energy budget of 1e46 joules it is 3.49e-40. The claim therefore fails by roughly forty orders of magnitude: whatever revives the stalled shock, it is not torsion energy at the bound, because at stellar densities there is essentially no torsion energy to release. This is a disproof of the claim as stated, computed from the bound's own formula. Simulated, not measured.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
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