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Old 26-August-2007, 11:40 PM
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But why is the energy uncertain? The gamma rays have to be detected, and the highest energy gamma ray I've ever heard of being detected is 3 times 10 to the 20 eV. That's nowhere close to the Planck scale (10 to the 28 eV)-- such high energy photons are not even thought to be able to propagate through the CMB without interacting.
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