Big Bang And Black Hole Singularities Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [2]

Hawking (1988: 115):

Einstein’s general theory of relativity, on its own, predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity (if the whole universe recollapsed), or at a singularity inside a black hole (if a local region, such as a star, were to collapse). Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity, and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, a singularity is the geometrical point at which all spatial intervals equal zero (and time intervals equal infinity).  Because there is no space for matter-energy, and because there is no matter-energy, there are no processes to unfold, and because there are no processes, there is no time dimension to measure their unfolding.

The big bang is the relative expansion of space intervals (and contraction of time intervals) from such a singularity, whereas the collapse to a black hole is the relative contraction of space intervals (and expansion of time intervals) towards such a singularity.