spaghettification
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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Noun
spaghettification (uncountable)
- (astrophysics) The gravitational stretching of objects into long thin shapes and eventually into a unidimensional wormhole.
- 1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:
- Spaghettification. Let me guess. 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.
- 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.