taylrl Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 what would happen if you were to poke a black hole with a very long stick? it might sound like a bit of a stupid question, bit i am being serious. Going further, what would happen if you tied a rope around the earth, and then threw the rope into a balck hole, would we get stucked in? I suppose the rope would snap really. OK what if the string couldnt snap. Anyway i think you can see what i am trying to get at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 The long stick would be sucked into the blackhole. All of the stick, as the part nearest the blackhole would be sucked in, moving the whole stick closer, which would suck in more etc. If you were holding the stick with a good enough grip you too would be sucked in. If the string was sufficiently strong enough not to snap then it would pull the Earth into the black hole. With the stick, or even the rope, I wonder at what rate you would accelerate due to the gravitational attraction of the blackhole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tree Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 As you get closer, the gravitational forces increase massively, so much so that the affect would be similar to holding one end of the rope still and tying the other end to a jumbo jet. So the rope would stretch via a process called spaghettification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daecon Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 The end of the stick would become infinitely heavy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BombFanatic Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 What would happen if the earth would be pulled into the black hole. Would we die. Or would we turn into spaghetti? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daecon Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Well we wouldn't be living spaghetti, let's put it that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Ah yes the magical ability of blackholes to transmogrify every known form of matter into pasta. I think steven hawking wrote a paper on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daecon Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Didn't you know? Black Holes are the new Philosopher's Stone. Who needs gold when you can have linguini? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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