White Holes : Cosmic Gushers in the Universe.

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.

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