Subject: Re: 35-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery Solved in a Flash?
     Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:02:06 +0100
     From: Ray Dickenson <ray.dickenson@...>

Steve Burt wrote:

> > Our present-day scientists are a bit stuck: thinking all energy
> > bursts must come - as most do on Earth - from "explosions" (ie
> > burning stuff very fast) or "collisions" (same thing really) -
> > because that's all they know about.
> >
> > Forecast: we'll eventually find most "gamma ray bursts" are due
> > to intermittent switch-on of `jets' from spin of stellar or
> > galactic cores, altho' there are also smaller jets like above a
> > (strong-enough)  lightning event in a thunderstorm cloud.
> 
> The intermittent switch-on is almost certainly caused by something
> falling in to the core, i.e. a collision
> Only very efficient conversion of matter to energy can possibly
> account for the energies we see.
> Remember that Black Holes, as well as mass, can have angular momentum
> (i.e. spin, in which case the singularity is a ring, not a point) and
> charge (and I think they can have magnetic fields, too).

  Trouble there Steve, "conversion of matter to energy" by
  collisions of _any_ sort simply WON'T explain the huge energies
  we are receiving over vast distances. They would require - so I'm
  given to understand - instant annihilations of significant parts
  of our visible universe; problem is - there's no known cause for
  such widespread destruction events.

  Alternative = Jetting phenomena, which are mostly in form of
  plasma jets shooting out for hundreds of light years. Science
  _cannot_ explain the origin of these jets.

  [BTW - "99.99 per cent of matter in the universe is in the form
  of plasma" New Scientist 02 July 2005, page 30]   

  Jets are _not_ caused by "falling into the core" because that
  would cause an explosion - a sudden outward spherical move of
  matter - which doesn't happen in jets.

  Jets are initially radiation, then plasma [then, if large enough,
  maybe even simple protonic matter] and are always formed along
  the axis of a rotating mass of matter; even if that "matter" is
  only ions, as in case of jets from large lightning events.
 
  That's not an explosion but a stripping of matter - all way down
  to plasma - by _almost_ contiguous (maybe within a proton's
  width?) but opposing forces. Trouble is, it's not predicted by
  the `standard model'. And the SM's all most rote-learning
  scientists think they `know' - but it's crap!

  The history of science shows always reluctant admission of fact -
  sometimes after several lifetimes - followed by conservative
  defensiveness for the "new" model.

  Why? Because most scientists are not actually thinkers but
  rote-learning proteges of a priestly establishment - exclusive
  and dismissive of ideas from outside of the sacred brotherhood.      

  BTW - that's not my opinion only Steve, check Nigel Calder's view
  at "badsci.txt" and Carl Sagan's thoughts on the matter at
  << dexterity sagan >>

  It boils down to this - rote-learners prefer what's in books
  (yesterday's theories) to inconvenient facts.

  cheers
  Ray D

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