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Theology of Black Holes

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  1. bwilson4web

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    Source: Astronomers Witnessed a Star Being Violently 'Spaghettified' by a Black Hole

    Emitted from the heart of a galaxy, it was the dying electromagnetic scream of a star as it was torn apart and partially devoured by a black hole roughly 5 million times the mass of the Sun – and a new analysis has shown that it underwent the rather aptly named process of 'spaghettification' as it died.

    Stellar deaths are usually violent affairs, but death by spaghettification is perhaps the most violent of them all. It occurs when a star wanders a little too close to a black hole, and the tidal force of its gravitational field pulls and tugs the star so hard that it ends up being torn apart – an event rather politely known as a tidal disruption event.

    As the star is torn apart, some of the resulting debris 'spaghettifies' – attenuating into a long, thin thread of material a bit like a spaghetti noodle that spools into a thin filament that wraps around and feeds into the black hole.

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    Sounds like the Star Trek Nexus spaghetti ribbon


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    One of the weaker movies in the series
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    where does the theology come into play?

    theology: 'the study of the nature of God, or religious belief.'
     
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    When you turn to spaghetti pretty sure you’re in a holy presence.

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    The spaghettified being touching Adam there sometimes comes up in such studies.
     
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    Theology meets rheology.
     
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    Are you saying the "study of God" intersects the "study of flow" at an event horizon?
     
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    Yes but not only there.
     
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    I'd be happy just knowing how the universe started.
     
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    With a-one, and-a two, and-a
     
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    I'm a little more interested in the last chapters.....
     
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    I guess that's human nature.
     
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    i think there was a tv show about how it started
     
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    I must have missed the episode that covered the exact point the big bang started.
     
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    Maybe time itself started at the same time,,,

    there was something on Google news: quantum mechanics (mechanics) are almost in agreement that there’s a singular, indivisible unit of time. It’s something like 1/20 of the current atomic clock beat. An incredibly short increment, but nevertheless tangible.

    if I could, I’d propose it be named the “moment”. :)
     
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    Maybe we'll have to rely on artificial intelligence to eventually answer the question.
     
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    That picture seriously looks like it could go on an alternative rock album from the 90s,
    "Alice in Chains" .
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    The videotape melted.
    Make that something under 10^(-20) of the smallest time increment measured so far. Perhaps the "science editor" didn't know how to interpret the notation, which also doesn't render correctly in this cut-and-paste:

    Planck time

    "The Planck time is the length of time at which no smaller meaningful length can be validly measured due to the indeterminacy expressed in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Theoretically, this is the shortest time measurement that is possible. Planck time is roughly 10−44 seconds. However, to date, the smallest time interval that was measured was 10−21 seconds, a "zeptosecond." One Planck time is the time it would take a photon travelling at the speed of light to cross a distance equal to one Planck length."
     
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    my toyota dealer only hires quantum mechanics. at least that justifies the hourly rate
     
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