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- Does spaghettification continue inside a black hole?
In Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time, an astronaut is stretched head to toe by the gravitational gradient of a black hole. Let us replace the astronaut with a large object and follow it inside as it travels along a radial line toward the center. I assume the gradient increases with, say, the square of the distance?
The object gets stretched farther and farther apart until we have a line of atoms, then the atoms themselves are stretched apart. Each stream of subatomic particles follows a radial line toward the center that converges with other streams from the object. I imagine fusion would occur at some point, creating larger atoms that get stretched apart. Would there be a stream of quarks?
The Higgs bosons would add to the depth of the black hole's gravity well.What happens to the electrons? Can two electrons merge? Since they are formless particles, perhaps a larger charge field? Does everything get converted to photons? Since the radial dimension becomes time itself, are all of the formless particles merged to form a dimensionless mass? Can a string even vibrate under such enormous forces? Of course we can but wonder.
The object gets stretched farther and farther apart until we have a line of atoms, then the atoms themselves are stretched apart. Each stream of subatomic particles follows a radial line toward the center that converges with other streams from the object. I imagine fusion would occur at some point, creating larger atoms that get stretched apart. Would there be a stream of quarks?
The Higgs bosons would add to the depth of the black hole's gravity well.What happens to the electrons? Can two electrons merge? Since they are formless particles, perhaps a larger charge field? Does everything get converted to photons? Since the radial dimension becomes time itself, are all of the formless particles merged to form a dimensionless mass? Can a string even vibrate under such enormous forces? Of course we can but wonder.