See spaghettification on Wiktionary
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"text": "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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"ref": "1990, Grant Naylor [pseudonym; Rob Grant; Doug Naylor], chapter 5, in Better Than Life, London: Viking, →ISBN, part 3 (Garbage World), page 153:",
"text": "‘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.’",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Kip S[tephen] Thorne, “Spacetime Warps and the Quantum World: Speculations about the Future”, in Stephen W[illiam] Hawking et al., The Future of Spacetime, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 136:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Michael Lockwood, “Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction?”, in The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 141:",
"text": "The so-called Cauchy singularity discovered by [Roger] Penrose and his colleagues turns out to be a weak singularity, according to a classification introduced by Frank Tipler: there are no unbounded tidal forces. It is not, therefore, the kind of singularity that spells inevitable spaghettification.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 October 15, Sophie Lewis, “Star dies by ‘spaghettification’ as it’s consumed by supermassive black hole”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 2021-02-14:",
"text": "During this violent spaghettification process, long, thin strands of material that make up the star collapse into the intense gravity of a black hole – which basically swallows it up like stellar spaghetti. The event releases a bright burst of energy that can be detected by astronomers.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"The gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes, usually near a black hole."
],
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[
"gravitational",
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[
"objects",
"object#Noun"
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[
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"long#Adjective"
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[
"thin",
"thin#Adjective"
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[
"shapes",
"shape#Noun"
],
[
"black hole",
"black hole"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(astrophysics) The gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes, usually near a black hole."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "noodle effect"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"astrophysics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1965, Alfred Jarry, “Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded)”, in Cyril Connolly, transl., edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, Selected Works of Alfred Jarry, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 50:",
"text": "We'll have to make do with twisting the nose and nears,^([sic – meaning ears?]) with removal of the tongue and extraction of the teeth, laceration of the posterior, hacking to pieces of the spinal marrow and the partial or total spaghettification of the brain through the heels.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1979, Cornell Review, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, page 61:",
"text": "We have suffered a partial or total / spaghettification of the brain. / We have kept the nails / in Christ's feet, revised the Aryan Paragraph, / and mistaken semantic discharge / for the basic language of God.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of turning something into long, thin strands like spaghetti."
],
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"act",
"act#Noun"
],
[
"turning",
"turn#Verb"
],
[
"strands",
"strand#Noun"
],
[
"spaghetti",
"spaghetti"
]
],
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"(rare) The act of turning something into long, thin strands like spaghetti."
],
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"rare",
"uncountable"
]
}
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{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "espagetizazio"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "spahjecifikacyja",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "спагеціфікацыя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spagetifikacija",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "спагетификация"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "spageten efekt",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "спагетен ефект"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "espaguetització"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "efecte agulla"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "麵條化"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "面条化"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "麪條化"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miàntiáohuà",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "面条化"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spaghettificatie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spagetoituminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spaghettification"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "Spaghettifizierung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "Spaghettisierung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spaghetti-Effekt"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "makaronopoíisi",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μακαρονοποίηση"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "ספגטיפיקציה"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spaghettificazione"
},
{
"alt": "スパゲッティかげんしょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "supagettikagenshō",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "スパゲッティ化現象"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "guksuhyogwa",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "국수효과"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spagettifisering"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spaghettifikacja"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spaghettizacja"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spagetyzacja"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "efektem makaronu"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "esparguetificação"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
],
"word": "espaguetificação"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "spagettifikacija",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "спагеттификация"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "špagetizácia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "espaguetización"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "spaghettifikation"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "nudeleffekten"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spahetifikacija",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"word": "спагетіфікація"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "efektom lokšyny",
"sense": "gravitational stretching of objects into long, thin shapes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ефектом локшини"
}
],
"word": "spaghettification"
}
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