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Author Gribbin, John, 1946-

Title White holes / John Gribbin.

Publication Info. London : Electric Book Co., [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents INTRODUCTION: -- Astronomical Tigers and Sheep -- A New World Picture -- PROLOGUE 1: Black Holes: A Figment of the Imagination? -- The Dynamics of Gravity -- How Stars Die -- Time Perspectives -- Evidence of Black Holes -- The Potentials of Black Holes -- PROLOGUE 2: Before the Black Hole -- The Binary Embrace -- Pulsars -- At the Heart of Matter -- 1 THE BIG BANG AND THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE -- What the Dark Sky Means -- The Steady State Alternatives -- From Our Point in Time -- The Echo of Creation -- Other Universal Perspectives -- The Range of Models.
2 PERCEPTIONS FROM INSIDE THE BALLOON -- The Problem of Measurement -- Red Shifts and Motion -- Measuring Distance -- The Quasar Problem -- Quasars and the Family of Galaxies -- Quasars and White Holes -- 3 GALACTIC GUSHERS -- The Radiating Galaxies -- A Challenge to Hubble -- Galaxy Cores -- Galactic Births -- The Clustering Model -- The Option of Anticollapse -- 4 OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY -- Globular Clusters -- The Big Flash Theory -- Galactic Ejections -- Spirals and Companions -- Galactic Components -- Star Formation -- Star Death -- 5 WHY SHOULD A WHITE HOLE GUSH? -- Two-component Theoriez.
The White Hole and Universal Gushers -- Black-Hole Explosions -- Particle Creation and the Event Horizon -- Black-Hole Masses-Large and Small -- Tree Trunks and Trousers -- 6 THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE -- Links of Influence -- Does Gravity Weaken? -- Static and Variable -- Small and Large -- 7 SYMMETRY IN THE UNIVERSE: 1: A Two-sided Balloon? -- Universal Cycles -- The Matter of Antimatter -- Our Counterpart Under the Skin -- Swifter Than Light -- 8 SYMMETRY IN THE UNIVERSE: 2: A Repeating Bounce? -- The Necessary Curvature -- The Evolutionary Path -- The Means of Rejuvenation.
Avoiding the Cosmic Trap -- EPILOGUE: Why Bother? -- APPENDIX Is Our Sun a Normal Star? -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE 2 -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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Subject Cosmology.
Cosmology.
White holes (Astronomy)
White holes (Astronomy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
ISBN 9781461911951 (electronic book)
1461911958 (electronic book)
1901843777
9781901843774