Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Nicolae Sfetcu
Author-Name-First: Nicolae
Author-Name-Last: Sfetcu
Author-Email: nicolae@sfetcu.com
Author-Workplace-Name:  Romanian Academy - Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CRIFST), History of Science Division (DIS)
ORCID: 0000-0002-0162-9973
Title: Gravitational Singularities
Abstract: Gravitational singularities in general relativity are spacetime locations where the gravitational field becomes infinite. Scalar invariant curves of spacetime include a measure of matter density. Some physicists and philosophers believe that because the density of matter tends to become infinite in singularity, spacetime laws are no longer valid there. A gravitational singularity almost universally accepted in astrophysics and cosmology as the earliest state of the universe, is the Big Bang. In this case also, the known laws of physics are no longer valid.
Keywords: gravitation, singularities, general relativity, spacetime, gravitational field, Big Bang
Language: en
Length: 10 pages
Creation-Date: 2019
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24285.87523
File-URL: https://www.telework.ro/en/e-books/gravitational-singularities/
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-URL: https://www.telework.ro/en/gravitational-singularities/
Handle: RePEc:bbp:wpaper:engravitational