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Can we see naked singularities?
We study singularities which can form in a spherically symmetric
gravitational collapse of a general matter field obeying weak energy condition.
We show that no energy can reach an outside observer from a null naked
singularity. That means they will not be a serious threat to the Cosmic
Censorship Conjecture (CCC). For the timelike naked singularities, where only
the central shell gets singular, the redshift is always finite and they can in
principle, carry energy to a faraway observer. Hence for proving or disproving
CCC the study of timelike naked singularities will be more important. Our
results are very general and are independent of initial data and the form of
the matter.Comment: 10 page