[sytelus]

This is very interesting paper that just came out last week. So they found fast radio bursts (FRB) to have DMs (Dispersion Measure) that are in perfect multiplication with integers to a constant. This was supposed to be bit more random and so these being in such order is very surprising and unlikely to be just coincidence. Only 11 FRBs are found so far which might also means source of signal is not all around. On the downside, the signal were assumed to require huge amount of energy in short burst that Sun would produce in entire day. That assumption lead to belief that FRBs were too close to be in our Milkeyway and more likely to be in other galaxy. Overall very interesting development.

[cpncrunch]

No, they're not -- read the paper. You'll see that the DMs are close to multiples of 187.5, but not exact. In fact some are quite far off (5%). I'm slightly dubious of the paper. I haven't calculated the probability myself, but is the 1/10000 chance calculated from assuming they are exactly 187.5 multiples (DMest), or from the actual results (which aren't exact multiples)? I'm hoping it's the latter.