Re: 2075-2077 Black Globes

Mark quoted from Genie:

> Then there's the famed "Black Globe World" in the Vargr Extents. On that world
> (Tuglikki 0904), a Vargr researcher activated a black globe and it promptly
> expanded to engulf a radius of 50 km from its location within 24 hours. That
> was in 973 (Imperial). That black globe engulfed the entire world within a
> year and kept growing, although at a slower rate. The black globe has reached
> 20,000 km in size and continues to grow at a rate of about 20 km per standard
> year.  In about 2 trillion years, assuming the globe's rate remains constant,
> it will have engulfed all of charted space. Recently, however -- for some
> unknown reason -- the globe's expansion rate has been increasing dramatically.
> Many researchers theorize this increased expansion rate means the globe is
> about to "go into overload." A globe of this size, if it releases all of its
> aborbed energy in one sudden blast, would devastate the entire parsec (both
> star systems).

Now the question comes up about what happens to gravity with black globes
and what are the effects?

I propose that a black globe reduces any factor of "g" (the gravitational
constant) from external bodies, to zero.  This makes any black globe
maintain its proper motion with respect to the universe at large.  Thus this
Vargr black globe would not be staying in Tuglikki 0904 but would be
travelling at some velocity (probably large) depending on the proper motion
of the star system it is in, depending on the proper motion of the galaxy,
and depending on the proper motion of the galactic cluster!

So the question you have to ask yourselves is, "Is it heading my way and
can I sell my property before it gets here or someone else finds out!!!"

> M.MIKESH                     at 16:53 EDT
>
>  Subject: Black Globes
>
>  Joe -
>       <Of course, one thing everyone has been assuming is that the
>...
>       <In actuality, I see the energy sinks of the owning vessel going
>  into an overload condition if it enters a world's atmosphere.>
>       You're right.  I just ran through the equations, and what I found
>  was that the energy in de-orbiting and that which a J-1 ship could
>  absorb was well over 10 million times in difference.
>       The scarry thing about this was that the lion's share of the
>  energy was in the form of potential energy ( E=mgh ).  This means that
>  a globed ship had best stay away from a planet.  A slight change in
>  depth to a gravity well could spell doom.

And I would have to disagree with the designers on this point.  Potential
energy would have no effect (or at least it would if one assumed my
previous point of reducing external gravitational constants to zero.)
Hence g=0 thus E (potential) = 0.  Now the kinetic energy traveling
through the atmosphere is another matter all together and I am in
agreement...don't travel to a planet's surface with your black globe
on!

                     *-=Carl=-*

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