So many strange things are being discovered in our universe and scientists are constantly being surprised. Even things that they thought that they understood sometimes turn out to be different than they first thought. It is thought that the universe originated by material compressing to a point where it just couldn't compress anymore and then there was a tremendous explosion. This was known as the big bang. The material I am talking about represented every bit of material there was and it was in one ball of matter. Scientists will point to the fact that all the stars and galaxies are rushing away from their positions and state that this motion was caused by this primordial explosion. It is important to know this before we delve into Gamma Rays. It is also important to be aware of Einstein's formula, E=MC2, which is Energy = Matter in direct proportion to the speed of light squared. Hey lets make this easy and just say that this formula lets us know the maximum size something that explodes can be if we know the distance and analyze the energy output.

Gamma Rays Signature Of An Exploding Nuclear Weapon

A strange phenomena has been observed in our universe for quite a few years and it has to do with Gamma Rays coming from massive explosions in space. If a nuclear weapon is exploded it will give off two spikes a smaller one, then a larger one on a Gamma Ray detector. Nuclear explosions give off Gamma Rays and these rays are deadly. The explosions that have been giving off Gamma Rays in space are gigantic and their signature on a Gamma Ray detector is many spikes. So how many of these explosions are we talking about? It is calculated that there are at least 100 of these every day. I personally think that there might be many more and I will talk about the reason for this belief later. When these explosions were first detected, scientists began to worry. The explosions were so huge that they felt that if one took place within 300 light years of Earth, it would be all over for this planet. Some even felt that it was only a matter of time before one destroyed us.

Gamma Rays From Explosions In Space Give Off This Type Of Signature And Can Go On For An Undetermined Amount Of Time

The explosions that caused the Gamma Rays were being studied even more closely. Scientists felt that these explosions could only be coming from inside the Milky Way Galaxy, because of Einstein's formula. So much matter would be required for the explosions, if they were coming from outside the galaxy, that as hard as this is to believe, all the matter in the entire universe would not be enough to fuel an explosion of this magnitude. Science was quite sure on this point, because if they were wrong, Einstein would have to be wrong and everyone believed that this was impossible.

One scientist decided that he would plot all these explosions. What he did was compare their locations to the ecliptic. If you look up in a dark starry sky it is possible to see a heavy trail of stars. What you are doing is looking through the Milky Way galaxy, our galaxy, to the other side. He reasoned that the explosions would have to have taken place in this location. As he began to chart these explosions he noticed that none of them were taking place in the Milky Way How could this be? We already knew that there was no way that there was enough material in the universe for these explosions to be taking place outside the galaxy? The conclusion by the scientific community was that this scientist was wrong and no one paid any attention to his calculations, well for five years anyway. So what changed? The U.S. launched a satellite that was designed to track explosions that gave off Gamma Waves. To the horror of the scientific community, the results showed that no explosions were taking place in our galaxy and all the explosions were at huge distances of about 14 billion light years, at the furthest ends of the known universe. This distance was verified by measuring the red shift of the light from one of the explosions. The lone scientist was vindicated.

Now science had a bigger problem, was Einstein wrong? If he was then all his work would be suspect. They had to get to the bottom of this mystery. They looked to see who had the most experience with explosions in space and it turned out to be the Astronomer Royal in England. He was approached with the problem and studied it for awhile and came up with a solution that proved that Einstein was still right, but that the explosions could still be at the other end of the universe. Here is what he found. A normal explosion spreads out in all directions, but these were not normal explosions. What was happening was that for some reason only two beams of Gamma Rays were coming out of a black hole. This required much less energy than an ordinary explosion would need and indeed it still fit into the parameter of the Einstein formula. A second part of the mystery had been solved, but what was causing the Gamma Rays?

After much investigation one astronomer figured out the last part of the puzzle. The explosions and Gamma Rays were coming from stellar nurseries. As new stars were being formed, a sort of freak star would be made. This was a star that was at least five times bigger than our sun and sometimes a lot larger than that. Because of it's immense size it didn't operate like an ordinary star which burns for about 10 billion years. These large stars would use up their fuel in a mere 1 million years, then collapse in on themselves forming a black hole, which then emits Gamma Rays. This was the cause of the explosions.

Here is the reason that I believe that there may be a lot more explosions that we don't know about. Since the Gamma Rays are in only two beams, I have reasoned that if the beams are pointing away from us, we might not even know that anything happened. Another interesting point is that we are looking at light and rays from about 14 billion years ago. What we are seeing is getting close to the beginning of the universe since it takes light so long to reach us. If we can get further back, will we see the actual mass before the big bang? This is all food for thought.