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"The repeater may have created more questions than it delivered answers." Difficult to understand as it is irregular with bursts at random intervals. "After 50
by Errorcod3 9y ago
"The repeater may have created more questions than it delivered answers."
Difficult to understand as it is irregular with bursts at random intervals. "After 50 hours of seeing none during previous observations, the team now spotted them frequently, including, one time, a “double burst” of signals only 23 seconds apart."
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- podiki 9y agoFurthermore, the older FRBs were not seen to repeat, though given how short the signal is, it could have been missed in followup observations. It is quite possible that although these events all seem to be similar, they may have different origins or mechanisms.
- perseusprime11 9y agoOccam's Razor: faulty equipment
- boomboomsubban 9y agoThat only happens when a range of telescopes point at a certain spot in the sky? It's possible, but by now they've likely ruled out most possible malfunctions.
- perseusprime11 9y agoCould it not be signals from our own equipment/satellites/spy planes/etc?
- winfred 9y agoThese radio telescopes have a fairly narrow focus and when two telescopes located on different continents aim at a source several billion light years away, their focal points do not overlap anywhere near earth, so that rules out anything on or near earth. You could come up with a theory where it does originate on earth, but it wouldn't pass Occam's razor.
- boont 9y agoI (mistakenly) thought you were referring to faulty equipment at the FRB. As in someone opened the door of a galactic scale microwave oven analogue megaparsecs away. And that sloppy engineering is still Occam's Razor no matter the scale or distance.