He's also wrong about The Ring. The escape hatch is a naked singularity, created by the supermassive superstring structure rotating around it fast enough to sk

He's also wrong about The Ring. The escape hatch is a naked singularity, created by the supermassive superstring structure rotating around it fast enough to skew the gravity envelop. Superstrings are an integral part of the book; the entire structure is made of them, along with Xelee spaceships. One small piece of one isn't what broke reality enough for the escape hatch, they just used them as scaffolding.