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PAllen said:You can if you want. You can be the exception that proves the rule. It is not a mathematical issue, nor is it in doubt that GR predicts them. The issue is what you think this says about GR as a physical theory. To me, and every physicist I know of who has written significantly on this, singularity is taken (by assumption, belief, not mathematical inconsistency) to represent the breakdown of the theory as a model of our universe, and the need for an alternative.
Yes, that makes sense to me (actually, from the physics point of view, QM would kick in first, so this point should be mathematical, not physical:) BTW, is it clear that GR is mathematically consistent in the presence of singularities? I've been assuming that it is because we can make sense of eg. FRW or Schwarzschild solutions. But would a mathematician see it the same way?