5.30.2010

re(approaching)singular(ity)

singularity [sing-gyuh-lar-i-tee]: n. a point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted.

According to general relativity, the universe began in a singularity. One theory of the end of the universe is that it will collapse into a singularity again.

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