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To: jsanders2001

“In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect[1]) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a very strong non-homogeneous gravitational field; it is caused by extreme tidal forces. In the most extreme cases, near black holes, the stretching is so powerful that no object can withstand it, no matter how strong its components. Within a small region the horizontal compression balances the vertical stretching so that small objects being spaghettified experience no net change in volume.”


12 posted on 11/28/2015 9:58:49 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

In other words extreme magnetic fields that make matter look like it got long and skinny while retaining the same quantity of matter just redistributing it, eh? Don’t let the liberals hear this. They’ll claim the universe is socialist in nature....: )


14 posted on 11/28/2015 10:54:03 AM PST by jsanders2001
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