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In article <1992Nov11.052908.22313@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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|>In article <1992Nov10.203037.13332@sfu.ca> palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
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|>>What are the gamma ray bursters? One of the arguments advanced by
|>proponents of orthodoxy on the first conundrum was that annihilation
|>radiation was not seen from intergalactic space. Could be we've started
|>to see some? Could be we've just started to look for it.
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|>Hmm.  Weird that it only occurs for short bursts, then.
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|>I listen to "Earth and Sky," a public radio show that airs in the middle
|>of "Morning Edition" here in Riverside.  Yesterday they said that
|>someone is trying to use gamma ray bursters to investigate dark matter.
|>I guess the idea is that if dark matter is fairly big hunks of stuff
|>(comet-sized??) it should cause some distinctive dispersion in the gamma
|>rays.  Does anyone know anything about this idea?  It's not clear to me
|>how much info one can get without understanding the bursters at all.
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This will not be a very informative article :-)

The small things I've heard, is that one tries to see whether the gamma-ray
bursts are uniformly distributed over the sky, and recent results seem to 
indicate that. 

If this is right, that will clearly indicate that these bursts are extra-
galactic in origin (I will _not_ say prove, because one could think of
the possibility that the bursts could come from the spherical halo of our
galaxy). If this is so, I guess we could be in for a treat, since we then
have to come up with the sources.... Lot's of fun for theorists :-).

				Jarle.

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