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    It is not the case that The point at the center of a Schwarzschild black hole arguably does not exist as part of space-time

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    • 1.Mathematical singularities can be treated as limit points or boundary constructions that preserve their membership in an extended space-time manifold.
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    • 2.Geroch, Kronheimer, and Penrose's 1972 c-boundary construction formally incorporates singular endpoints into space-time topology without requiring field equations to hold there.
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    • 3.The failure of a physical law at a point is insufficient to exclude that point from the underlying geometric structure the law presupposes.
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    • 1.The Schwarzschild solution is a coordinate-dependent idealization; no realistic collapsed star produces a perfect Schwarzschild geometry, so the 'center' is a model artifact, not a physical absence.
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    • 2.Eliminating entities from ontology solely because they produce divergences in a theory commits the instrumentalist fallacy of conflating theoretical breakdown with non-existence.
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    • 1.Near the center of a Schwarzschild black hole, curvature increases without bound
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    • 2.At the center of a Schwarzschild black hole, curvature is undefined
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    • 3.Where curvature is undefined, Einstein's field equations cannot be said to hold
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