The Occurrence of Singularities in Cosmology. III. Causality and Singularities

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Aug 1967

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 300, Issue 1461, pp. 187-201

Physics

97

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The questions about singularities that remain to be answered are discussed. It is shown, without any assumption about causality, that there are fully general solutions which evolve from a non-singular state to an inevitable singularity. An observationally testable condition is given which would imply the existence of a singularity if a reasonable assumption about causality were made. This condition would also be satisfied in an approximately spherical collapsing star and so would enable one to prove the occurrence of a singularity in such circumstances without assuming that space-time admits a Cauchy surface. If the assumption about causality held, the singularity could not be of the Misner type but would presumably involve infinite curvature. This would probably indicate that the Einstein theory broke down but only in very strong fields.

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