Saturday, 8 December 2012

Space bursts provide insight to 'theory of everything'

Space bursts provide insight to 'theory of everything':
An illustration of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful explosion type yet seen in the universe. Light from some of the universe's most energetic explosions is allowing scientists to probe the nature of space-time, according to new observations of so-called gamma-ray bursts from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Ikaros spacecraft. Photons released by these bursts help place limits on a unified model of all of the forces of nature — what scientists call a "theory of everything."