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Secret-Head-6267 t1_je9hs5x wrote

Reply to comment by fleranon in The brightest gamma-ray in human history hit our planet this past Fall by PuzzleheadedOne1428

Or, all of the scientific journals were wrong. Bc everything that I have ever read on the subject of GRBs has been quite clear on the outcome of a direct hit, irrespective of any inverse square law involving wave propagation and x distance traversed in a near vacuum: total annihilation. Perhaps the Perimeter Institute and Neil Turok have some final words on this phenomenon? -J

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Bensemus t1_jeakjrh wrote

Then you didn't understand what you were reading. Gama rays are still just light and their intensity falls off with the square of the distance. This is ancient physics.

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bluesam3 t1_jeabnfn wrote

Clearly you haven't read anything by anybody who isn't a moron, then.

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fleranon t1_je9rlel wrote

Same! I think I even read something once that linked Gamma Rays to Fermi's great Filter. Instant death by massive Space Ray, Zzzzzap. Perhaps Science Mags tend to be overly sensationalistic sometimes :)

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Bensemus t1_jeakp4w wrote

They are a possibility but there's never been confusion about how deadly they are. The farther away you are from something the less energy it will have when it gets to you.

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