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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Compelling Mysteries (II)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.052908.22313@galois.mit.edu>
- Summary: Gamma ray bursters
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- Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, LA
- References: <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov10.203037.13332@sfu.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 05:29:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.203037.13332@sfu.ca> palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
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- >What are the gamma ray bursters? One of the arguments advanced by
- proponents of orthodoxy on the first conundrum was that annihilation
- radiation was not seen from intergalactic space. Could be we've started
- to see some? Could be we've just started to look for it.
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- Hmm. Weird that it only occurs for short bursts, then.
-
- I listen to "Earth and Sky," a public radio show that airs in the middle
- of "Morning Edition" here in Riverside. Yesterday they said that
- someone is trying to use gamma ray bursters to investigate dark matter.
- I guess the idea is that if dark matter is fairly big hunks of stuff
- (comet-sized??) it should cause some distinctive dispersion in the gamma
- rays. Does anyone know anything about this idea? It's not clear to me
- how much info one can get without understanding the bursters at all.
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