Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Jun 1928
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1928natur.121..862j&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 121, Issue 3057, pp. 862-863 (1928).
Mathematics
Probability
Scientific paper
THE article entitled ``Nova Pictoris as a Double Star,'' in NATURE of April 7, attributes to me views which I do not hold. This is doubtless due to an incompletely cabled report of an interview which I gave to a reporter of the Cape Times, after the announcement from Johannesburg of the duplicity of the star, which was announced in the local press as a splitting of the star. In this interview I mentioned various theories which have been advanced as possible explanations of the outburst of a nova, including the theory of a grazing impact of two stars. I referred to the inherent improbability of the latter occurring, but added that as Nova Pictoris had behaved in such an exceptional manner from the time of its first discovery, it should not be left out of consideration in seeking an explanation of the star's behaviour, and that subsequent observation of the star would doubtless throw further light on the matter. I do not, however, adopt the view that the outburst was definitely due to such a collision.
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