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So, the canned explanation that I always hear about why the white hole solution of the...

So, the canned explanation that I always hear about why the white hole solution of the extended Schwarzschild solution is non-physical is that "The matter distribution cuts off the white hole solution."

If I look at Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse, however, the cosmological solution that I paste to in the dust's interior is just the closed pressureless model of the Robertson-Walker metric, which is perfectly time-symmetric about the point of maximal expansion. If I look at this na

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The point is that the configuration that you are describing as the time-reversed Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse would need very specific initial conditions to occur. A collapse process on the other hand is very generic. You can have a collapse with any number of initial configurations. In that sense a collapse process is more physical than the reverse.

It is like dropping a needle and having it land on its tip. There are many ways to drop it and have it lying down on its side, but there is only one that you can drop it and have it land and stay balanced on its tip.

It is a mathematical possibility but a physical improbability.

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