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White holes / John Gribbin.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gribbin, John, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology.
- White holes (Astronomy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Other Title:
- White holes : cosmic gushers in the universe
- Place of Publication:
- London : Electric Book Co., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Intro
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-1195-8
- OCLC:
- 70736966
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