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originally posted by: dragonridr
We call that science fiction.
originally posted by: Erno86
originally posted by: dragonridr
We call that science fiction.
You may call it science fiction...but I call ---black hole starships and the methods described thereof --- are quite possibly the only viable and safe way for mankind too travel to the stars.
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: Erno86
originally posted by: dragonridr
We call that science fiction.
You may call it science fiction...but I call ---black hole starships and the methods described thereof --- are quite possibly the only viable and safe way for mankind too travel to the stars.
Really and how would you make one not to mention contain it. This is funny because the energy requirements to make a blackhole would far exceed the energy we coyld harness. If you had the energy required you dont need the blackhole. So saying something is posible and it being practical are two very different things.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Erno86
Um... No.
Gamma shielded or not, if you try and place a black hole inside an object, that object will be consumed by it.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: Erno86
Um... No.
Gamma shielded or not, if you try and place a black hole inside an object, that object will be consumed by it. If you had the scientific and engineering capacity to safely capture a black hole, then you would not need one in the first place!
Also, black holes do not have component parts. They are systemic, they are whole things. They are not like some gigantic, all consuming pie that you can fractionalise into smaller pieces.
originally posted by: dragonridr
Blow up a bkack hole???? Hmmmm didn't put much thought into this did you ? Look you just cant blow one up or find one just the fact of trying to contain one would require a huge em field and well again if you could go into space capture a black hole no need to do it since it would require a huge energy source. Back to reality we could make one but again same problem would require huge amount of energy not to mentipn mass the size of a planet. Suppose we could use mars but i think the planet is more useful.
Remeber in sci fi they dont have to work out the details but as they say the devil is in the details. In reality a blackhole isnt a viable energy source there are some other possibilities including fusion or antimatter that could supply all the energy we would need.
Text "Although beyond current technological capabilities, a black hole starship offers some advantages compared to other possible methods. For example, in nuclear fusion or fission, only a small proportion of the mass is converted into energy, so enormous quantities of material would be needed.
Thus a nuclear starship would greatly deplete Earth of fissile and fusile material. One possibility is antimatter, but the manufacturing of antimatter is hugely inefficient and antimatter is difficult to contain.
On the other hand, the process of generating a BH from collapse is naturally efficient, so it would require millions of times less energy than a comparable amount of antimatter or at least tens of thousands of times given some optimistic future antimatter generator.
As to confinement, a BH confines itself.
Also, if a BH, once created, absorbs new matter, it will radiate it, thus acting as a new energy source."
originally posted by: dragonridr
a reply to: Erno86
Well your first problem is blackholes dont suck up photons and spit them out as you say. Second this would still limit the craft to below light speed because if you were to eject photons they will only travel at the speed of light meaning you couldnt provide enough force to exceed that. But all that aside do you believe UFOs have crashed if you do and they used singularities the results would be devasting when they lost containment the earth could easily be destroyed.
originally posted by: luciddream
i dont mind The Big Bang Theory revised, scrapped or replaced, it was a theory, which seemes to make sense yet felt it had holes.