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OK, now that I have your attention: let me be more precise. Certainly
there is a parameter in the S solution which tells you what the mass of
this thing would be, calculated a la Kepler, if it were a Newtonian
source...which it isn't. For certain purposes this is no doubt useful.
But I am thinking of mass as a measure of "quantity of matter". So let
me ask again:
How much matter is there in the whatever-it-is that the Schwarzschild
solution describes? [People have objected, quite rightly, to my use of
the word "object"...another piece of bait, I must confess.] After all,
there must be some matter there, right? I mean, "matter tells spacetime
how to curve", right? And so there must be some matter there, "causing"
spacetime to curve, otherwise it would not know how to curve...right?
All right, to quit fooling, what I am driving at is this: The amount of
matter in this spacetime is zero. Exactly zero. There is no matter "in
the singularity", because this statement does not make sense. It's not
that I am averse to delta functions etc: by all means, tell me that a
Newtonian point source can be represented by a delta function, so that
the point source has a non-zero mass. Just don't tell me that this
situation is in any way comparable to the S solution.
I ask because I am trying to understand why people consider the presence
[actually, absence!] of singularities in classical GR to be some kind of
blemish on the theory.