A thread of 2 messages, 13 June 1994 to 14 June 1994, in the order they were sent.
How do you make a black hole? You need at least several solar masses of material concentrated in one place so that even the neutrons cannot support it. Of course there is gravitational compression ala TNE, it could work....anybody? That done, why would you want to? Well, once it gets moving it aint gonna stop, Itll absorb anything that hits it. Back to antimatter missiles! Tariq
"Tariq M. Rashid" [email removed] writes:
>How do you make a black hole? You need at least several solar masses o
>material concentrated in one place so that even the neutrons cannot
>support it. Of course there is gravitational compression ala TNE, it
>could work....anybody?
Possible or not, I do think we are talking Ancients technology here. Or
close to it at least.
>That done, why would you want to? Well, once it gets moving it aint
>gonna stop, Itll absorb anything that hits it. Back to antimatter miss
Several SF writers has used black holes or singularities (same thing) as
weapons or as a means of locomotion in either real space or hyperspace.
David Gerrold use it in his latest book "Covenant of Justice". Larry
Niven used it as a murder weapon and as a weapon from destroying
starships. One of the two latter (if not both) stories are not realistic
as Stephen Hawkins found that black holes of the size mentioned in these
stories would only exist a few seconds before they ceased to exist.
And a missile with with a black hole must keep the black hole "alive"
until after it is used. And this will undoubtfully cost power and/or
mass. How much? do anyone know? [sigh, back to the drawing board]
Roger "StarWolf" Myhre