White Holes: An Impossible Possibility

Reid Reimers expands your mind with an explanation of white holes — celestial objects that almost definitely are not real things that can be found in nature. Except, we might have actually seen one.

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Sources:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625062.500-the-word-white-holes.html#.U0Thw_mSzmc
http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/embedding.pdf
http://motls.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/stephen-hsus-confusion-about-white.html
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schww.html#instability

Do white holes exist? Have we seen one?

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/full/nature05376.html
http://io9.com/5805202/mysterious-cosmic-explosion-might-be-first-ever-proof-of-white-holes
http://www.universetoday.com/76909/white-holes/
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/FAQ/question29.html
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=108
http://www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/Primer/what_is_entropy.htm
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/bursts.html