John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…80tj7 - it's true that astronomers are the most excited about what they ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqyq8furek5hckhxjaayvuz9ht9nv0kuup5l9sej4l2fa256anaq3se80tj7 (nprofile…0tj7) - it's true that astronomers are the most excited about what they can't explain. For a long time gamma ray bursters were a huge mystery: short bursts of gamma rays possibly up to 10¹⁶ times that of our Sun. A huge network was built to catch them in the act and look for them in visible light. Now we think we may be starting to understand them.

I made a list of the top open questions in physics... somewhat outdated now:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/open_questions.html

These are the big mysteries!