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The weakest interaction

APR 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048190

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What causes supernova explosions? What powers quasistellar radio sources? How might the universe, in the far distant future, begin to contract? The answer to all of these questions may be gravitational collapse. At the January meeting of the American Physical Society, John Wheeler discussed this topic under the title “Gravitational Collapse—to What?”

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Volume 19, Number 4

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