Singularities?

Question

A singularity - like what the Universe is conjectured to have come from - is a thing "infinitely small" it is said; but 'infinitely small' is not just another way of saying 'really,really small"; infinitely small means that it doesn't exist,hence anything any 'bigger' would necessarily be 'infinitely bigger so it makes no sense to speak of such things in these,relative, terms as if infinity is somewhere at the end of a continuum. If a thing DOES get to be infinitely small what is it that is left; just a set of rules, waiting for their 'time'?

Answer 1

Most people are unable to understand what infinity is, as it is counter intuitive.

Infinity exists, and is a fundamental element of any mathematical equations, but there is no room to prove it here

Answer 2

Whatever that "singularity" was, it did not exist in space/time. It couldn't.... there was no space or time.

The only way I can "imagine" it at all is to think of it as a "probability" for space/time that was somehow "observed" and became "reality". Interesting implications, no?.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x_tNzeouHC4

Answer 3

A singularity is best described as a POINT in spacetime where all physical laws break down.  A point has no dimension, and can therefor be legitimately described as being "infinitely small"

Answer 4

The only singularity that could ever exist was the first space-time pulse that launched this universe

Answer 5

There are two types of singularities the big bang and black holes. As the word says it has a single form whereas the star systems, galaxy and the universe are made of matter in many forms.