Subject: Re:  Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.
From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
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In article <1993Apr27.132255.12653@tpl68k0.tplrd.tpl.oz.au> keithh@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Keith Harwood) writes:
>
>In article <1rbl0eINNip4@gap.caltech.edu>, palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer) writes:
>> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
>>
>> >  What  evidence  indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away?
>>
>> >Given the enormous  power,  i was just wondering,  what if they are
>> >quantum  black holes or something  like that  fairly close by?
>>
>> >Why would they have to be at  galactic ranges?
>>
>. . . David gives good explaination of the deductions from the isotropic,
>'edged' distribution, to whit, they are either part of the Universe or
>part of the Oort cloud.

I don't know what you mean by 'edged', but surely there are two other
possibilities for an isotropic distribution: near interstellar (up to
~100 pc, i.e. within the disc), or the Galaxy's corona?

>Why couldn't they be Earth centred, with the edge occuring at the edge
>of the gravisphere? I know there isn't any mechanism for them, but there
>isn't a mechanism for the others either.

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