The laws of Change & Stability, as they arise out of the unification of Change and Stability are as follows: When the influx or loss of energy exceeds the specific Stratum of Stability (its intrinsic and specific capacity to gain or loose energy and remain stable) of any system, the system must change. When the influx or loss of energy does not exceed the specific Stratum of Stability of any system, the system remains stable. When the influx or loss of energy exceeds the Stratum of Stability of any system by far, the system collapses. Here then, we have also recovered Newton's laws of motion, but on a far more fundamental and far more general level - and from an independent and entirely different approach. Strata of Stability also apply to black holes. This means that when the influx or loss of energy exceeds the intrinsic and specific Stratum of Stability of a black hole, the black hole must change. This, by the way, is an entirely different mechanisms of the collapse of black holes than that proposed by Stephen Hawking. And the most likely change for a black hole is a phase-shift to the stupendous out-pouring of energy of a 'white hole', or quasar. For those unfamiliar with the term, black holes are stupendous gravity wells that result from the gravitational collapse of super-giant stars. This powerful gravity-well then pulls everything else within its reach into its core, and becomes more powerful with any additional mass captured. Eventually, this gravity-well becomes so stupendous that it will swallow millions and millions of stars and planets, growing ever more powerful along the way, until not even light can escape it. Hence the term 'black hole'. One would think that black holes are cosmic evil incarnate by pulling everything in their vast reach into the bottomless black of their insatiable core. But this is not so. The laws of Change & Stability demand that black holes must eventually give up and pour out the stupendous energy they have captured. In this light then, black holes are, almost literally, cosmic vacuum cleaners, and perform a powerful fundamentally function within the structure and dynamics of our universe. In somewhat more lyrical terms, the function of black holes is to gather what has been lost, to concentrate was has been dissipated, to turn cold into heat, to turn darkness into light, to bring forth life out of death - in eternal cycles of birth, death and re-birth. Moreover, and according to the laws of Change & Stability, the birth of our universe may well have been caused - to paraphrase a recently popular colloquialism - by the inevitable collapse of "The Mother of All Black Holes". All this is very beautiful; it now turns out that the birth and death of stars, of black holes, of universes - are all governed by the same law and dynamics, differing only in the scale of the mass and energy involved. This would also move the birth of our universe firmly into the realm of the first law of thermodynamics - which is, since the Stability of energy is infinite, entirely logical. The law of Change & Stability - and the law of the Conservation of Energy - yield a permanently oscillating universe - from Big Bang to Big Crunch in an infinite cycle of birth, expansion, contraction, death and re-birth. Moreover, the context of the law of Change & Stability contains the strong probability that energy and matter undergo a polarity-shift at each Big Crunch - Big Bang oscillation, yielding successive 'energy' and 'matter' - and 'anti-energy' and 'anti-matter' universes at each oscillation. The immediately preceding universe to our present universe would then have been the 'anti-universe' of our present universe. Not that this matters in any way whatsoever; unless one compares the polarity of energy of two successive universes, one could not tell one universe from the other. To review this entire article by Peter Weis, click here