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The Story of Collapsing Stars - Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
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The Story of Collapsing Stars - Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
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This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual
adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the
final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue
is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today,
from both the perspective of gravitation theory and of modern
astrophysical observations. This is a revolution in the making and
may be intimately connected to our search for a unified
understanding of the basic forces of nature, namely gravity that
governs the cosmological universe, and the microscopic forces that
include quantum phenomena. According to the general theory of
relativity, a massive star that collapses catastrophically under
its own gravity when it runs out of its internal nuclear fuel must
give rise to a space-time singularity. Such singularities are
regions in the universe where all physical quantities take their
extreme values and become arbitrarily large. The singularities may
be covered within a black hole, or visible to faraway observers in
the universe. Thus, the final fate of a collapsing massive star is
either a black hole or a visible naked singularity. We discuss here
recent results and developments on the gravitational collapse of
massive stars and possible observational implications when naked
singularities happen in the universe. Large collapsing massive
stars and the resulting space-time singularities may even provide a
laboratory in the cosmos where one could test the unification
possibilities of basic forces of nature.
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