by kovil » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:16 pm
Just the Facts, Jack. Spare us your BBT fantasy's.
NASA satellite detects record gamma ray burst explosion.
"This burst was a whopper," said Swift
The burst was detected at 2:12 a.m. EDT, March 19, and pinpointed the coordinates in the constellation Boötes.
Swift's other two instruments, the X-ray Telescope and the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, also observed brilliant afterglows. Several ground-based telescopes saw the afterglow brighten to visual magnitudes between 5 and 6 in the logarithmic magnitude scale used by astronomers. The brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number. From a dark location in the countryside, people with normal vision can see stars slightly fainter than magnitude 6. That means the afterglow would have been dim, but visible to the naked eye.
In any kind of city, forget about it, plus you'd have to know exactly_where to look.
Later that evening, the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across the visible universe.
The problem in determining distance by redshift alone, is that redshift is not caused by recessional velocity alone, and the so called Cosmological Constant of Expansion of the Universe is incorrect. So a 0.94 redshift does not translate into a 7.5 Gly distance automatically, to the dismay and detriment of Mainstream Astrophysics calculators.
sinpix translator;
Milliards = billion light years
His girlfriend in France has a fear of sending him an email, as the USGovt records and searches for signs of terrorists on all electronic communications coming into this country. She doesn't need the false attention.
Just the Facts, Jack. Spare us your BBT fantasy's.
NASA satellite detects record gamma ray burst explosion.
"This burst was a whopper," said Swift
The burst was detected at 2:12 a.m. EDT, March 19, and pinpointed the coordinates in the constellation Boötes.
Swift's other two instruments, the X-ray Telescope and the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, also observed brilliant afterglows. Several ground-based telescopes saw the afterglow brighten to visual magnitudes between 5 and 6 in the logarithmic magnitude scale used by astronomers. The brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number. From a dark location in the countryside, people with normal vision can see stars slightly fainter than magnitude 6. That means the afterglow would have been dim, but visible to the naked eye.
In any kind of city, forget about it, plus you'd have to know exactly_where to look.
Later that evening, the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across the visible universe.
The problem in determining distance by redshift alone, is that redshift is not caused by recessional velocity alone, and the so called Cosmological Constant of Expansion of the Universe is incorrect. So a 0.94 redshift does not translate into a 7.5 Gly distance automatically, to the dismay and detriment of Mainstream Astrophysics calculators.
sinpix translator;
Milliards = billion light years
His girlfriend in France has a fear of sending him an email, as the USGovt records and searches for signs of terrorists on all electronic communications coming into this country. She doesn't need the false attention.