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What actually happens when you approach a gravitational singularity?

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 نشر من قبل Ben Whale
 تاريخ النشر 2021
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Roger Penroses 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics recognises that his identification of the concepts of gravitational singularity and an incomplete, inextendible, null geodesic is physically very important. The existence of an incomplete, inextendible, null geodesic doesnt say much, however, if anything, about curvature divergence, nor is it a helpful definition for performing actual calculations. Physicists have long sought for a coordinate independent method of defining where a singularity is located, given an incomplete, inextendible, null geodesic, that also allows for standard analytic techniques to be implemented. In this essay we present a solution to this issue. It is now possible to give a concrete relationship between an incomplete, inextendible, null geodesic and a gravitational singularity, and to study any possible curvature divergence using standard techniques.



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