Spaghettification
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title:
Spaghettification
text:
In general relativity, spaghettification is the vertical stretching and horizontal contraction of objects entrained into a flow of space called a gravitational field. The opposite effect is called pancaking and is experienced by bodies positioned on a surface that is in a gravitational field but is not falling into the latter, or, due do the equivalence principle, by bodies positioned on a surface that is being accelerated towards them. Stephen Hawking described the flight of a fictional astrona
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description:
Phenomenon in astrophysics
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
date created:
2004-09-05T17:05:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T17:05:08Z
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