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Old August 24th 09, 05:11 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.math
Gordon Stangler
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Default What is the singularity?

On Aug 23, 9:52*pm, "M.M.M." wrote:
This is I have heard the deepest problem in cosomology. What is it?
Musatov


In Cosmology, a singularity is a point where the geodesics cannot be
extended smoothly over said point. This is slightly different then
the traditional statement that a singularity is a region of spacetime
where the curvature becomes infinite independent of the frame of
reference.