Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are interesting. Just one GRB produces more energy than that contained in all the stars of the universe. A GRB happens about once every 100 seconds. If one ever happened in the Milky Way galaxy we’d be toast. Fortunately for biological life on Earth they are extragalactic, so far as we know. Scientists don’t know very much about them. But we can
watch them firing off on our computer screens in virtual real-time.
Since science is just becoming familiar with GRBs, fair speculation about them is wide open. Maybe they mark the birth of a black hole. Maybe they have played evolutionary roles on Earth in the past that account for, say, mass extinctions, such as the unprecedented-but-unexplained Permian Extinction. Maybe they are the cause of radical mutations. Maybe one was the Star of Bethlehem. Maybe it was used to zap the baby Jesus in his manger, as a kick-start from his Father to get on with the business of salvation.
So I'll propose a thread on GRBs, if one doesn’t already exist, to be placed anywhere the Admin likes, assuming the Admin likes it all all.
”HM