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I first recount Raychaudhuri’s deep involvement with the singularity problem in general relativity. I then argue that precisely the same situation has arisen today in loop quantum cosmology as obtained when Raychaudhuri discovered his celebrated equation. We thus need a new analogue of the Raychaudhuri equation in quantum gravity.
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Dadhich, N. Singularity: Raychaudhuri equation once again. Pramana - J Phys 69, 23–29 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-007-0108-3
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