From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Dear Folks: Just when you thought it was safe to come outside without
wearing your welder's glasses, I now have received more information about
the Photon Beltl, so here we go again....................................

                              PHOTON BELT REVIEWED

          There has been additional verification by astronomers that
        there is a new found source of energy in space which they cannot
        explain.  This force is so great its sheer power mystifies scien-
        tists and astronomers who have viewed it through their tele-
        scopes.  This update was sent to us by Sxxxx Lxxx who remembered
        the Photon Belt article we ran in  March/April, 1992, and have
        mentioned in subsequent newsletters.  Indeed, it does seem to be
        relevant.
          The following article entitled "Astronomers track explosion of
        space energy - Origin believed to be at edge of universe" by
        Kathy Sawyer of the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Serv-
        ice was taken from the April 25, 1993, U.S. Focus.

          The biggest winners of this year's Super Bowl may have been
        astronomers.  While earthlings watched football, a NASA satellite
        was watching the sky.
          Suddenly it was partly blinded by a violent explosion that,
        scientists say, may have originated near the edge of the known
        universe.
          Its location is being hotly debated.  But the "Super-Bowl
        burst," as it is now known, changed the ground rules for solving
        one of astronomy's great mysteries:
          Something in the depths of space is shooting gamma rays at
        Earth.
          Since the first sighting of such a burst in 1967, scientists
        have generated some 125 theories to explain the nature and loca-
        tion of the sources.
          Characteristics of the Super Bowl burst indicate that the
        sources may be even more monstrously powerful than previously
        suspected, up to 1,000 times more numerous, and located billions
        of light-years away.
          Emitted in focused beams: At a NASA briefing Thursday, scien-
        tists said this new evidence - from the Compton Gamma Ray Observ-
        atory, a $560 million, 17-ton facility put in orbit in April 1991
        - shows that these brilliant, unpredictable detonations are not
        the product of merely hot "cooking" objects but of particles
        being accelerated to near the speed of light and being emitted in
        focused beams, or jets.
          Scientists so far can only speculate about what objects might
        create such energies and why the radiation is seen only in gamma
        ray wavelengths.
          Gamma rays are the most energetic form of radiation on the
        electromagnetic spectrum, with the shortest wavelength, invisible
        to the human eye.
          Those of cosmic origin can only be studied from orbit, above
        Earth's atmosphere.  They can carry billions of electron volts of
        energy, whereas ordinary visible light rays contain about 3
        electron volts.
          Scientists said there are few objects violent enough to produce
        the types and quantities of energies in the bursts.
          Crunches into black hole: "The light the sun would give off in
        its 10 billion years of history, multiplied by a thousand, within
        10 seconds - that's all we need," said Stan Woolsey of the Uni-
        versity of California at Santa Cruz, a leading theorist on ex-
        ploding objects.
          His pet candidate is a hypothetical form of collapsing star
        that bypasses the normal explosive rebound phase and crunches
        directly into a black hole, winking out in a gargantuan cata-
        clysm.
          A black hole is a hypothetical object so tightly packed that
        not even light can escape its gravity.
          No corresponding objects: The Super Bowl burst, which regis-
        tered unprecedented spikes of up to one billion electron volts
        during its approximately one-minute duration, was one of almost
        600 such flashes seen during two years of mapping by the Compton,
        and one of almost 1,100 seen since 1967.
          No corresponding objects have been seen in optical or other
        wavelengths by ground or orbital telescopes.
          The Jan. 31 burst was 10 times brighter thantwork?
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