Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The extreme elongation or stretching of an object by tidal forces as it falls toward an extremely massive and compact astronomical body, such as a black hole or neutron star.
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- noun astrophysics The
stretching of objects into long thin shapes in a very stronggravitational field such as ablack hole .
Etymologies
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Weather this means that they will actually us correct or Hollywood science is unclear but I am feel quite confident that if they were made aware of the term spaghettification and what it entails they just might want to use real science.
Discover Blogs 2009
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book ''A Brief History of Time' 'to describe extraordinarily strong tidal forces.
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book ''A Brief History of Time' 'to describe extraordinarily strong tidal forces.
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book
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Matter coming close to the event horizon of a small black hole undergoes a process called spaghettification, a term coined by Stephen Hawking in his book
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Sadly for you, everyone knows that lurking in the interior of the black hole is a singularity, and your fate will be spaghettification or worse.
Making Extra Dimensions Disappear Sean 2009
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The theory of spaghettification will cause heat, since you will obviously be breaking molecular bonds, which release energy.
Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy | Universe Today 2009
pamelad commented on the word spaghettification
the process by which an object would be stretched and ripped apart by gravitational forces on falling into a black hole
December 20, 2006
bilby commented on the word spaghettification
Since when did we leave the Italians in charge of black holes?
July 25, 2008
palooka commented on the word spaghettification
Your funny bilby! I'm still laughing.
November 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word spaghettification
Italians do Westerns, too. :-)
November 3, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word spaghettification
"You don’t hear about a lot of meatball backlash. But many Italians clearly see the spaghettification of bolognese, specifically, as a dire wrong. Their attempts to right it have ranged from organized, high-level efforts to, more recently, a kind of Internet comment trench warfare. In 1982, Bologna’s chamber of commerce officially notarized what they consider to be the authentic recipe, which contains beef skirt, pancetta, celery, carrot, onion, a little tomato, wine, and milk."
-- http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-people-seeing-red-over-spaghetti-bolognese
December 6, 2016