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i started reading Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes (Earman, 1995). my first revelation was that the point-like singularity caused by gravitational collapse (a black hole) is not the only possible type of space-time singularity, at least in the mathematical, if not physical, sense.

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