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TITLE PAGE

1.EARLY EXPLORATIONS

1.1.Voids in Astronomy

1.2.Technological Prerequisites

1.3.A Hidden Paradigm

2.INDIVIDUAL VOIDS (CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES)

2.1.Results From Galaxy Reashift Surveys

2.1.1.IDENTIFICATION AND STRUCTURE OF VOIDS

2.1.2.MATERIAL CONTENT OF VOIDS

2.1.3.STRUCTURE OF CONTIGUOUS SHELLS

2.1.4.KINEMATICS 0F CONTIGUOUS SHELLS

2.2.Indications From Distant Objects

2.2.1.ABELL CLUSTERS

2.2.2.QUASARS

2.2.3.COSMIC BLACKBODY RADIATION

3.ENSEMBLES OF VOIDS (CURRENT STUDIES)

3.1.Statistical Representations of Void Data

3.1.1.POISSON VOIDS (SUBTLETIES)

3.1.2.STATISTICAL PROBABILITY TECHNIQUES

3.1.3.DENDROGRAM ANALYSIS

3.1.4.POINT-SMOOTHING ANALYSIS

3.2.Theoretical Studies

3.2.1.DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF VOIDS

3.2.2.ORIGIN OF VOIDS

4.MASS/TIME-SCALE PROBLEMS

4.1.Masses

4.2.Survival Times

4.3.Explanatory Hypotheses

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