Hubble Spots Source of Short Gamma Ray Burst 28
symbolset writes "Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have imaged some evidence that the merger of neutron stars is responsible for producing a short-duration gamma ray burst. On June 3rd the Swift gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission detected GRB 130603B, a burst lasting only one tenth of a second nearly 4 billion light-years away. Imaging with Hubble, they located a small red dot which, over the course of the following two weeks, dimmed."
Hawking Decay (Score:1)
One possibility GRB source might be QBHs (small black holes created during the high pressure of gluon soup matter soon after the creation event). Most would have long decayed, but the estimate for their half life is usually massively underestimated because relativistic effects aren't considered. For some of these higher velocity boojums, the universe is probably not even a week old yet. They may be far more rare these days, but QBHs are going to be with us for a long time.
Spectra doesn't seem to match in
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He is talking about the Big Bang. AKA the "creation event" as defined by current scientific cosmology. You may think this kind of cosmology is just as silly as other kinds of cosmology, but that is personal opinion and belief.
I would say that event has more than enough energy concentrated to produce small black holes. Likely a few rather large ones too.
S0 (Score:1, Informative)
Re:S0 (Score:5, Informative)
Sigh.
While this guy seems to occasionally spot something not typically mentioned by science reporters, and especially seems to spot solar flare and other solar activity based upon his monitoring of various solar observatories over the internet about as good as any space weather forecaster, he has some really silly ideas about the causal relationships between solar storms and geological activity here on the Earth that goes into what could charitably called fringe science.
If you really want to see some more reliable forecasts, I'd recommend instead the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center [noaa.gov]
Still, this YouTube channel is at least worth an occasional chuckle or two. You certainly shouldn't take it too seriously.
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Again, does he have any other substantial group in the scientific community that agrees with his theories?
I sort of thought so. That is sort of the definition of fringe science. He may be correct (sometimes fringe researchers hit upon a good idea that takes time to become accepted into mainstream science), but by far it is more likely that he is a loose cannon and drifting off into spouting off pure nonsense. He also tends to spout off some fringe political ideas in his videos too, which is something tha
Crank science (Score:1)
There are more than 200 earthquakes per day that are large enough to be felt by humans.
Old news, Even by Slashdot Standards (Score:5, Funny)
... happen almost 4 billion years ago.
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Yeah. Old. Be more interesting if it was newer ... like from yesterday.
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More interesting, and also considerably more turn-the-Earth's-surface-into-a-fiery-uninhabitable-wasteland-ing.
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Einstein would disagree with you.
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... happen almost 4 billion years ago.
Pity that there wasn't a gravitational microlens somewhere along the way. We'd have a nice ancient dupe. ;/
Oh no (Score:2)
Millions of years of courting and burst at the first touch. We feel you GRB 130603B, hope you have a long life together.
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Told him he should have rubbed one out beforehand.
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Safety nova?
Small red dot... (Score:3)
>Imaging with Hubble, they located a small red dot which, over the course of the following two weeks, dimmed.
So that's why my cat has been frantically pawing at the sky for the last two weeks!
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Your cat was almost two months late. June 3rd to July 20th.
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There... (Score:1)