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The Skeptics Guide #902 - Oct 22 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Gamma Ray Burst Breaks Records

The energy contained in that gamma ray burst was the entirety of our sun's energy output over 10 billion years times a thousand. 18 trillion electron volts, which main fact require revisions to our understanding of physics itself. It's much more powerful than anything created in the Large Hadron Collider. So this gamma ray burst actually had a tangible impact on Earth's atmosphere.

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