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  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2 Sections 2, 3
  • Chapters 3, 4 (skip section 6 for now), 5

  • Chapter 6 Supernovae
    Also 2.1, 2.2, 2.4 & 2.5 for background
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8, Sections 1, 2 (skip Sections 3, 4), Sections 5, 6, 7 (skip Sections 8, 9), Section 10 (skip Section 11)
  • Chapter 9, Sections 6-8
  • Chapter 10, black holes, updated material posted.
  • Next topic: Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts, part of old Chapter 11 in book, new separate Chapter 11 posted.
  • Then Supernovae and Cosmology, part of old Chapter 11 in book, new separate Chapter 12 posted.
  • Chapter 12 in the Book and new, revised, posted Chapter 13 (Worm Holes and Time Machines) and Chapter 14 (Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Large Extra Dimensions)




For those who do not have a book, the first chapters are available here as a download...

1 - Setting the Stage
2 - Stellar Death
3 - Dancing With Stars
4 - Accretion Disks
5 - White Dwarfs

The following chapters have been substantially revised for the second edition of Cosmic Catastrophes:

6 - Supernovae
7 - Supernova 1987A
8 - Neutron Stars
9 - Black Holes in Theory
10 - Black Holes in Fact
11 - Gamma-Ray Bursts, Black Holes and the Universe
12 - Supernovae and the Universe
13 - Wormholes, and Time Machines
14 - Beyond











 





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