Spaghettification was due to gravity intensifying, metre by metre, in the approach to a black hole.
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Spaghettification was due to gravity intensifying, metre by metre, in the approach to a black hole.
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But in the approach to a black hole the effect is far stronger: the astronaut’s body is stretched out on a gravitational rack. Before he comes near the event horizon, his body will be pulled out beyond the limits that flesh and blood can stand and he will suffer the excruciating death of ‘spaghettification’ long before he is in any position to unravel the secrets of the black hole. The strength of the spaghettification effect (usually known more prosaically as ‘tidal stretch’ for it is related to the way the Moon raises tides on Earth) depends on the mass of the rack-inducing black hole.
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‘Spaghettification. Let me guess,’ said Rimmer. ‘I can see only two options: one – due to the bizarre effects of the intense gravitational pull, and because we’re entering a region of time and space where the laws of physics no longer apply, we all of us inexplicably develop an irresistible urge to consume vast amounts of a certain wheat-based Italian noodle conventionally served with Parmesan cheese; or two – we, the crew, get turned into spaghetti. I have a feeling we can eliminate option one.’
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I am convinced, by arguments given by [John Archibald] Wheeler in 1957, that the end point of spaghettification—the singularity itself—is governed by a union, or marriage, of the laws of quantum mechanics and those of spacetime warpage. This must be so, since the warpage spaghettifies space on scales so extremely microscopic that they are profoundly influenced by the uncertainty principle.
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