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Plus you get to invent portable closed-loop particle accelerators...net win, I'd say.
by maicro 4y ago
Plus you get to invent portable closed-loop particle accelerators...net win, I'd say.
- Out_of_Characte 4y agoI was just thinking that theres another way to store short half lives or other perishables, just create a miniature black hole, it will fall for infinity but you could retrieve the item once you stop feeding the black hole energy and it'll evaporate by hawking radiation in microseconds. Ive been watching too much doctor who and now I want a thermoscan based on black holes for my tea
- dylan604 4y agowhat kind of shielding would be required to keep all of that radiation from killing you? i still don't trust the shielding on my microwave, so i can't imagine trying to shield the effects of a black hole
- ben_w 4y agoThere is no safe way to be near a black hole. If you have one of a "mere" 606 million tons, the Hawking radiation is hot enough to directly include fast moving positrons (and has a luminosity of 1.178 GW), while still massive enough to spaghettify you (370g at 10cm). If the black hole is lower mass, the radiation gets even more energetic. The radiation from 606 thousand ton black holes (sometimes suggested for Hawking radiation drives for spacecraft) is hot enough the radiation will either include antiprotons, or at least the photons will be energetic enough to spontaneously create them on impact: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/no-a-black-hole-cant-be-used-as-a-rocket/ https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/05/14/no-a-black-...
- cwillu 4y agoAlas, the way you feed energy to a blackhole is by dropping things into it. (Yes, there is a well-known paradox/open-problem implied by this.)