Spaghettification In The Relational Model

🌌 Spaghettification, Relationally Speaking:

In the conventional (observer-independent) model of general relativity, spaghettification happens because the gravitational field near the singularity increases dramatically over very small distances. The closer parts of an object experience stronger gravitational pull than the farther parts—ripping it apart lengthwise into a spaghetti-like strand.

But in the relational model, where:

• Space intervals contract or dilate in relation to a gravitational field (a centre of mass),

• Time is not absolute but unfolds as part of the process of observation and instantiation,

• And meaning is instantiated through the relation of the observer to the centre of mass,

we get a subtly different take:

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🍝 Spaghettification as Relational Disintegration:

• Spaghettification is not just a physical stretching but the relational collapse of spatial intervals along the radial dimension toward the singularity.

• From the perspective of the meaning maker, what is experienced is not simply being stretched but losing the ability to instantiate distinct spatial intervals in the direction of increasing gravitational gradient.

• This “loss” is not felt as pain or drama by the meaning maker (unless they’re made of metaphors) but as a constriction of the semiotic field: a literal narrowing of the spatial relations through which meaning can be constituted.

So in relational terms, spaghettification is the progressive annihilation of spatial meaning—not just bodily integrity. The meaning maker can no longer relate separate spatial instances as they approach the singularity. They are being stretched only in the sense that space as relation becomes thinner and thinner, like taffy being pulled until the taffy is no longer taffy but indistinguishable strands of sugar atoms—and then not even that.