[NormsRevenge]

NASA --- The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/swiftsc.html

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MOST DISTANT EXPLOSION DETECTED, SMASHES PREVIOUS RECORD

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/news/2005/05-259.html

[Nateman]

These bursts occur fairly often but in the past they could not locate the source in time to figure out anything. This probe is going to reveal allot about the universe.

[TheZMan]

The thing I don't get is that... the image they show of the blast has stars in the background.

Any educated individual could conclude then that the light coming from the stars in the background was obviously older than the light coming from the blast featured in the article (the one I read at discovery news).

Perhaps that was an artists concept of the blast, but I saw no such commentary to that effect.

[Nathan Zachary]

The evolutionists are pushing their "big bang" theory again. Nothing explodes and suddenly becomes something. Somehow, if you belive the gas cloud theory (where did they come from)They exploded and somehow created a bunch of rocks, which then somehow turned into organic material. DNA, with millions, or even billions of complex chemical instructions, just happened by accident.
The five senses, sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, all “miraculously” appeared from one celled creatures that had absolutely no awareness that such things existed or were needed.
The raw material “inputs” for the evolutionary process, the “Big Bang” requires blind faith to accept that nothing magically became a universe so large, and with so much material that the human mind can not comprehend its infinite size. Nothing “created” everything by a “Big Bang” accident.
Complex systems with mutually exclusive components (“pieces” that can’t work without all of the pieces being there at the same time) that “magically” created all of the dependent components at the same time through the same “accidents.”

Evolutionists believe that if you have a deck of 52 cards and two jokers, and then shuffle the deck thoroughly, and throw the entire deck up in the air as high as you can, that eventually all of the cards will land, in perfect order, and perfectly aligned. The probability of this even happening one time in a billion years approaches zero. Then, to believe evolutionary "theory," you have to accept on blind faith that this same miracle of perfect order from total chaos has repeated itself millions of times to account for each of the plants, animals, and life on earth.

And you thought belief in god required faith.....

[taxesareforever]

"We designed Swift to look for faint bursts coming from the edge of the universe,"

I believe this one was from the flash of a Kodak Instamatic camera taking a picture of earth from 1000 feet.

[Eepsy]

If this happened thirteen billion years ago, wouldn't the universe have been a heck of a lot smaller then? You would think the light would have reached a point where it had already been everywhere it could be before now. Is the universe expanding faster than the speed of light?

Be kind to someone with only six months of high school physics under their belt :)

[M. Espinola]

Swift could potentially see bursts from even greater distances

'The latest, record gamma-ray burst was detected on 4 September, 2005, and lasted about three minutes. It probably marked the death of a massive star as it collapsed into a black hole.'

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from September 2005. Just adding, not pinging.

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