spaghettification
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
spaghetti and -ification
[edit] Noun
spaghettification (uncountable)
- (astrophysics) The stretching of objects into long thin shapes in a very strong gravitational field such as a black hole.
- 2003, Stephen W Hawking et al, The Future of Spacetime
- I am convinced, by arguments given by Wheeler in 1957, that the end point of spaghettification — the singularity itself — is governed by a union...
- 2005, Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe
- It is not, therefore, the kind of singularity that spells inevitable spaghettification.
- 2003, Stephen W Hawking et al, The Future of Spacetime
