A record-breaking gamma ray burst was observed yesterday (March 19th) by NASA's Swift satellite. After red-shift observations were analysed, astronomers realized they were looking at an explosion half-way across the Universe, some 7.5 billion light years away. This means that the burst occurred 7.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was only half the age it is now. This shatters the record for the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye...
Full article here.
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 Mar 21 2008, 11:50 am
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Mar 21 2008, 12:02 pm
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GhostAnime
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That must've been one heck of a fart attack >_>' I think Wario was behind it :O
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Quoted from the site: "Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions observed in the Universe, and the most powerful explosions to occur since the Big Bang."
Why would they say that? The Big Bang is a theory. It has not been proven. | |
Because it's scientifically the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the universe.
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Hazman wrote:
Because it's scientifically the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the universe. So? You don't compare something to something else that has never been proven. It just sounds stupid... | |
Cavern wrote:
So? You don't compare something to something else that has never been proven. It just sounds stupid... Science, and anything else in reality, can not be proven. Only mathematics and mathematical logic are able to be proven. You live your life every day on basic assumptions and theorems, even if you don't notice it, and our modern world uses different aspects of many theories every day. Flash drives use quantum tunnelling to store data, and GPS sattelites have to account for time dilation because of general relativity. It is certainly not stupid to live your life on something that has not been proven. | |
Popisfizzy wrote:
Science, and anything else in reality, can not be proven. Only mathematics and mathematical logic are able to be proven. You live your life every day on basic assumptions and theorems, even if you don't notice it, and our modern world uses different aspects of many theories every day. Flash drives use quantum tunnelling to store data, and GPS sattelites have to account for time dilation because of general relativity. It is certainly not stupid to live your life on something that has not been proven. I have no response to that... Well played... | |
Jesus put that there to test your faith, he also invented physics and mathematics as well. GG
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