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A set of conditions for the reasonableness of space-time is proposed and investigated. Using these, together with strong causality and an assumption of genericness, it is shown that future timelike or null geodesically incomplete space-times contain either curvature or intermediate singularities, or primordial singularities.
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Clarke, C.J.S. Space-time singularities. Commun.Math. Phys. 49, 17–23 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01608632
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