Sorry for the offtopic, but it's probably Space Jockey's warning.
Run!
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First, the speculative. I've made the point before that Hubble can allegedly see 95% of the way to the expected edge of the Universe; usually this point is accompanied by the question of what we will learn when we finally see that last five percent.
As to mysterious sounds coming from deep space, while gamma and radio are admittedly two different things, one of the first ideas to mind upon reading the topic post was the "Biggest Bang since the Big Bang", and no, it was not Zaphod Beeblebrox (the alleged "Best Bang since the big one"):
A recently detected cosmic gamma ray burst released a hundred times more energy than previously theorized, making it the most powerful explosion since the creation of the universe in the Big Bang.
"For about one or two seconds, this burst was as luminous as all the rest of the entire universe," said Caltech professor George Djorgovski, one of the two principal investigators on the team from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA ....
.... The burst was detected on Dec. 14, 1997, by the Italian/Dutch BeppoSAX satellite and NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. The Compton observatory provided detailed measurements of the total brightness of the burst, designated GRB 971214, while BeppoSAX provided its precise location, enabling follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
"The energy released by this burst in its first few seconds staggers the imagination," said Caltech professor Shrinivas Kulkarni, the other principal investigator on the team.
The burst appears to have released several hundred times more energy than an exploding star, called a supernova, until now the most energetic known phenomenon in the universe. Finding such a large energy release over such a brief period of time is unprecedented in astronomy, except for the Big Bang itself.
"In a region about a hundred miles across, the burst created conditions like those in the early universe, about one millisecond (1/1,000 of a second) after the Big Bang," said Djorgovski.
This large amount of energy was a surprise to astronomers. "Most of the theoretical models proposed to explain these bursts cannot explain this much energy," said Kulkarni. "However, there are recent models, involving rotating black holes, which can work. On the other hand, this is such an extreme phenomenon that it is possible we are dealing with something completely unanticipated and even more exotic."
(NASA)
So the speculative is that perhaps they've finally heard the rumbling of the leading edge of the Universe. The more likely is that something exploded, and we just happened to hear.
Does anyone know where we can hear a recording of the radio burst?
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Gamma Ray Burst 971214, May 7, 1998. The event is near the center of the image,
the upper of two small bright objects between the two prominent galaxies. Click image to
view larger. (Image credit: S. R. Kulkarni and S. G. Djorgovski.)
Notes:
Adams, Douglas. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. London: Pan Books, 1979. http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book1.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "News Release 98-75". May 6, 1998. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Accessed January 12, 2009. ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-075.txt
See Also:
"Gamma-Ray Burst Found to be Most Energetic Event in Universe". HubbleSite.org. Accessed January 12, 2009. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/17/
It could be a warning from G...O...D!
This radiation is analogous to the CMB radiation: It comes at us from every direction, as if we are at the center of a sphere & the radiation is coming in equal amounts from every spot on the surface of the sphere.The loud noise may just be an unknown process in stars.
First, the speculative. I've made the point before that Hubble can allegedly see 95% of the way to the expected edge of the Universe; usually this point is accompanied by the question of what we will learn when we finally see that last five percent.
As to mysterious sounds coming from deep space, while gamma and radio are admittedly two different things, one of the first ideas to mind upon reading the topic post was the "Biggest Bang since the Big Bang", and no, it was not Zaphod Beeblebrox (the alleged "Best Bang since the big one"):
A recently detected cosmic gamma ray burst released a hundred times more energy than previously theorized, making it the most powerful explosion since the creation of the universe in the Big Bang.
"For about one or two seconds, this burst was as luminous as all the rest of the entire universe," said Caltech professor George Djorgovski, one of the two principal investigators on the team from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA ....
.... The burst was detected on Dec. 14, 1997, by the Italian/Dutch BeppoSAX satellite and NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. The Compton observatory provided detailed measurements of the total brightness of the burst, designated GRB 971214, while BeppoSAX provided its precise location, enabling follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
"The energy released by this burst in its first few seconds staggers the imagination," said Caltech professor Shrinivas Kulkarni, the other principal investigator on the team.
The burst appears to have released several hundred times more energy than an exploding star, called a supernova, until now the most energetic known phenomenon in the universe. Finding such a large energy release over such a brief period of time is unprecedented in astronomy, except for the Big Bang itself.
"In a region about a hundred miles across, the burst created conditions like those in the early universe, about one millisecond (1/1,000 of a second) after the Big Bang," said Djorgovski.
This large amount of energy was a surprise to astronomers. "Most of the theoretical models proposed to explain these bursts cannot explain this much energy," said Kulkarni. "However, there are recent models, involving rotating black holes, which can work. On the other hand, this is such an extreme phenomenon that it is possible we are dealing with something completely unanticipated and even more exotic."
(NASA)
So the speculative is that perhaps they've finally heard the rumbling of the leading edge of the Universe. The more likely is that something exploded, and we just happened to hear.
Does anyone know where we can hear a recording of the radio burst?
____________________
Gamma Ray Burst 971214, May 7, 1998. The event is near the center of the image,
the upper of two small bright objects between the two prominent galaxies. Click image to
view larger. (Image credit: S. R. Kulkarni and S. G. Djorgovski.)
Notes:
Adams, Douglas. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. London: Pan Books, 1979. http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book1.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "News Release 98-75". May 6, 1998. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Accessed January 12, 2009. ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-075.txt
See Also:
"Gamma-Ray Burst Found to be Most Energetic Event in Universe". HubbleSite.org. Accessed January 12, 2009. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/17/
Kaneda: The following is not likelyThis radiation is analogous to the CMB radiation: It comes at us from every direction, as if we are at the center of a sphere & the radiation is coming in equal amounts from every spot on the surface of the sphere.
Radiation from quasars, neutron stars, gamma rays, et cetera come from various specific directions, not from evrywhere.
Radiation from stellar processes would come from specific directions.[/QOUTE]
However, and not really to go against your point or anything, but the background temperatures [are actually], ''nearly''' homogeneous. In many parts of the universe, we do actually find different temperatures. The only reason why physicists never take it on board, is because it's not too much of a difference. It is taken to be smooth to about 10,000th of an error in all directions.
The fact this source is coming from us at all directions seems to imply one of two things:
1; it is closely related to the background temperatures in a ''homogeneous'' sense
2. But it can't have been smoothed out by inflation, because it happened somewhere between half the universes history
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.
The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.
I made a theory a while back. I didn't like the idea everything could come from nothing, so i preferred the notion matter and energy was in a continuous share with a finite number of universes. Other than the notion that energy and matter cannot just come from nowhere, i like big bang.
Kaneda: The following is not likelyThis radiation is analogous to the CMB radiation: It comes at us from every direction, as if we are at the center of a sphere & the radiation is coming in equal amounts from every spot on the surface of the sphere.
Radiation from quasars, neutron stars, gamma rays, et cetera come from various specific directions, not from evrywhere.
Radiation from stellar processes would come from specific directions.
It doesn't matter if it is in continuous share with a finite number of other universes. Everything had to have come from somewhere at one point.. shared or not.
Your theory doesn't solve the something from nothing situation..
It doesn't matter if it is in continuous share with a finite number of other universes. Everything had to have come from somewhere at one point.. shared or not.
Your theory doesn't solve the something from nothing situation..