Originally Posted by trinitree88

Gamma Ray Bursts, amonst the most energetic things we can observe and contemplate, continue to confuse and elude strict classifications. This hinders our understanding of some of the distant universe. Longs look like shorts and vice versa. Pieces of spectral data seem missing when theory seems to require that it be there. The author, Maxim Lyutikov, summarizes the state of affairs in a conference paper....at "The Shocking Universe" conference. see:http://www.merate.mi.astro.it/docM/O...009/index.html

see:http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/...911.0349v1.pdf