Whoops. Got me. Very embarrassing. I tried to be fancy by grafting the ordinary, non-physics meaning of the word onto the more specific, scientific use. Just pretentious and ignorant--a really great combination.
> “This Watchman publication is what physicists call a singularity. There has been nothing like it before now, and there never will be again,” says Daniel Menaker, a former editor at Random House<p>You'd think someone in the business of words would be less likely to abuse terminology they don't understand.