{"id":4335,"date":"2009-12-07T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2009-12-07T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T08:00:31","slug":"gammas-are-busting-out-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4335","title":{"rendered":"Gammas are Busting Out All Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/12\/nasas-search-for-massive-stars-imploding-into-black-holes.html\">NASA&#8217;s Search for New Laws of Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at gamma-ray bursts and gamma-ray burst explosions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These events are so mind-bogglingly intense that they can be detected from billions of light years away (and so billions of years in the past).  Which is good, because you really don&#8217;t want one to get any closer than that. One popular &#8220;sudden extinction&#8221; theory is that such a burst has happened within range of our own galaxy, but because the lethal gamma radiation moves at the speed of light, the first evidence we could &#8216;detect&#8217; would be everybody and everything dropping dead.  The only people who could investigate it are those who evolve from particularly hardy bacteria hidden deep in a rock somewhere, evolving for billions of years then looking at fossils full of iPhones and saying &#8220;Hmm, I wonder why everybody fell over all of a sudden&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Search for New Laws of Physics Looking at gamma-ray bursts and gamma-ray burst explosions. These events are so mind-bogglingly intense that they can be detected from billions of light years away (and so billions of years in the past). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}