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名詞

gravitational singularity (plural gravitational singularities)

1. (physics) A location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.
   • 2013, Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny H. Soraker, Eric Steinhart, chapter 1, in Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 5:

     Seen as a central metaphor, a gravitational singularity is a (theoretical) point at the centre of black holes at which quantities that are otherwise meaningful (e.g., density and spacetime curvature) become infinite, or rather meaningless.

同意語

• spacetime singularity

参考

• technological singularity