Re: Yeast question

On May 9, 3:03 pm, "n...@xxxxxxx" <Alien8...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 7, 11:43 am, "Shawn Wilson" <ikonoql...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The 'warhead' is a mini fusion bomb. (aka a supply of hydrogen in a
container), the gun fuses the hydrogen and manipulates the energy released
to produce the relativistic quantum black holes of the 'projectile'.

Hm. Extrapolated from the "self-forging projectile" concept? There
have been discussions here about shaped-charge fusion devices that
produce a focused blast; an array of them _might_ be able to focus
enough energy into a small enough volume to make one or more QBHs. The
fun part would be making a small enough fission (or whatever) trigger
to set off the fusion reactions needed. Ah! Not a _fission_ trigger
which works via raw heat; you have a short-range, fine-focus
_gravitational_ trigger (field generator is part of the gun,
sacrificial focusing pole pieces built into each round) that works by
inducing a few trillion gees in a small volume containing the hydrogen
fuel, thus rapidly compressing it anisotropically giving the required
focused blast. That way most of the energy goes directly into making
the QBHs instead of being wasted as heat and light, the rest going
into velocity. The decaying rate and shape of the compression field
projected by the gun can help accelerate the QBHs. Also, misfire
(explosion but no QBH formation) products would be thrown clear doing
much less damage than trying to contain a fusion explosion outright.
There will be an unavoidable amount of waste heat you can probably get
away with handwaving as you prefer.

I've been thinking about this and am unhappy with it. For one thing
the amount of energy you get even from completely fusing a man-
handleable-size fusion bomb will only give you itty-bitty BHs that
can't be expected to dependably "unwrap" very destructively upon
striking matter; their event horizons are too small even to eat a
single atom though they might grab a stray electron now and then.
Second, they'll be so damn small that they're likely to evaporate too
quickly to be of much use.

There are some workarounds if you're willing to extrapolate from
current theory onto some currently relatively shaky ground.

You can say that the process makes Kerr-Newman QBH pairs which is to
say they carry electric charge and have spin. They are different from
non-rotating, uncharged Bhs in some relevant ways, for one they have
an ergosphere, which is an oval-shaped volume of space immediately
around them with very strong frame-dragging properties. You can then
go on to say the QBHs are formed so close together that their
ergospheres nearly merge, making them effectively live longer (they co-
orbit so very fast that they experience Relatavistic time dilation)
than would be expected because their evaporation is slowed from the
Hawking rate. Hence they'll easily live long enough to get to the
target.

So you have co-orbiting pairs of black holes that are still teeny-
weeny even as pairs; they can't do a lot of damage that way. They're
just so small they'll likely pass right through the ship without
anybody noticing.

Here's another bit of shaky ground; they're formed with very high
values of spin, forcing their near-merged ergospheres nearly into
figure-eight pancake shapes say a foot across rotating like a
propellor. When they hit matter (face-on, of course) the ergospheres
actually do all the damage by twisting atoms right out of place and
making them orbit the BH pairs. The captured matter's orbits won't be
very stable and it'll be re-emitted as high-speed particle radiation.
However, that's _ordinary_ matter; the stuff your armor's made of is
so resistant that it only gives up parts of its structure at the cost
of some of the spin and momentum of the MBHs; once the MBHs have
chewed their way through they would become unpaired and evaporate
explosively with say a small percentage of the energy that went into
making them. (Of course all this is necessary because nothing less
_can_ penetrate the damn armor).

That allows you to calibrate the desired blast/damage effects pretty
much any way you want, by stripping so much off in losses on the way
through the armor that frinst a suited human within a dozen yards
might survive while equipment closer is damaged or destroyed.

Again, this doesn't need a three-paragraph infodump to explain. Just
have some gunny sergeant quote a manual about how "rounds" are
actually "Black Hole Pairs, Kerr-Newmann, extreme spin, merged
extended ergosphere, relativistic, gravitationally-polarized, fusion
munitions, for the production of" or similar and let the readers
either look the words up and figure it out themselves or just accept
it as something you _really_ don't want pointed at you.

And/or you can work some of it into a purplish-prose battle
description; "In numbered but otherwise unremarkable gun turrets
nameless crewmen strove mindlessly to load fusion cartridges into the
grav guns that forged them into packages of concentrated ravening Hell
and flung them across space- for hours volley after volley of paired
co-rotating micro black holes fired from those guns screamed
relativistically toward their targets, their commingled ergospheres
hungering to frantically chew through armor in order to triumphantly
release their remaining carefully-hoarded energy destructively within
hapless ships..."


Mark L. Fergerson

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