From StarTalk.

In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson, joined by co-host Chuck Nice, speaks with physicist Brian Cox about a provocative listener question: could tidal forces inside a black hole endlessly rip quarks apart, creating an explosive “quark catastrophe”? The discussion explores quark confinement, hadronization, energy conservation, and the strange nature of time inside a black hole, concluding that finite time before the singularity—and our ignorance of what a singularity truly is—prevents any infinite quark production.

From ‘Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox’: https://youtu.be/tpWaAESy6RE?si=guhhLqjuc5aHcYIu

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