The Squeezing Of Matter Into A Singularity Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Davies & Gribbin (1992: 264-5):

If, then, an object that falls into a black hole cannot reemerge into the outside Universe, what happens to it? As we have explained, any object that encounters the singularity is annihilated: it ceases to exist. A precisely spherical ball of ordinary matter, for example, collapsing to become a black hole, will shrink to the common centre. All the matter will be squeezed into a singularity.

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As previously explained, from the perspective of locations outside the event horizon, where meaning-makers are situated, matter falling towards the singularity never actually reaches it, and so is never compressed to an infinite density.

Further, the notion that matter is infinitely compressed at the singularity confuses matter with spatial dimensions. It is the three dimensions of space intervals that are hypothetically "compressed" to the zero dimensions of a singular point in space.

The confusion of matter with spatial dimensions is also demonstrated by the authors' wording "object that encounters the singularity", which presents a location, a point in space, as if it were a thing that could be encountered.