After you’ve been ripped into shreds of organic molecules, the molecules themselves begin to feel the continually growing tidal forces. Eventually, they too snap apart, creating a stream of their constituent atoms. And then, of course, the atoms themselves snap apart, leaving an unrecognizable parade of particles that, minutes earlier, had been you.
But there is more bad news.
All parts of your body are moving toward the same spot — the black hole’s center. So while you’re getting ripped apart head to toe, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube.
To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die … we add the term “spaghettification.”
—“Death by Black Hole,”
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He uses the word “you” and vivid imagery to create the experience of a black hole.
