“The team conclude that the extraordinary brightness of the 19 March burst arose from a narrow jet that shot material directly toward Earth at 99,99995 percent of the speed of light.”
sounds impressive, but they are probably misinterpreting something.
“The data clearly reveal the complexity of a GRB in which a narrow, ultra-fast jet is present within a wider, slightly slower jet”
it’s SO easy to misinterpret these things. Like the quasars who’s redshift “ABSOLUTELY 100% MUST” mean they are billions of light years away, then oops! there’s one in a nearby galaxy with a billions of lightyears redshift. suddenly “clearly, definitely” becomes “maybe, perhaps”. sounds cool though.
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
God was saying hello.
Yep. It cracks me up how some Astronomers and Astrophysicists on shows like The Universe claim precise measurements to distant objects with only one point of reference and no way to accurately verify their measurements, or when they claim to fully understand processes within stars or planets, yet these stars are so distant it's akin to standing in New York and trying to look at a mosquito on the moon. Or, like so-called "dark matter". We can't see it, but it must be there, right?
Why it is that "experts" always seem to be "surprised?"