Scifi star drive systems
Oct. 16th, 2024 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninComparing antimatter/matter reactors in Star Trek to the Romulan system of using quantum singularities, AKA "miniature black holes" =
I don't think the quantum singularity is meant to be any better than using antimatter, it's just different. And once the singularity is made, I imagine you can feed any old matter into it to keep it going. You'd have to give it *something* or else it would evaporate completely, and then you'd have nothing. Seems to me to be a pretty good idea, using something where you don't need to worry about finding a substance that has to be made artificially since it doesn't really exist in nature in our universe, and instead use a mini black hole and you can feed it literal garbage to keep it going. It may be no faster or more powerful than antimatter, but it's a lot more practical and more efficient.
Like, so efficient I wonder if the Vulcans use the same system on their ships. If not, I would wonder why not.
I don't think the quantum singularity is meant to be any better than using antimatter, it's just different. And once the singularity is made, I imagine you can feed any old matter into it to keep it going. You'd have to give it *something* or else it would evaporate completely, and then you'd have nothing. Seems to me to be a pretty good idea, using something where you don't need to worry about finding a substance that has to be made artificially since it doesn't really exist in nature in our universe, and instead use a mini black hole and you can feed it literal garbage to keep it going. It may be no faster or more powerful than antimatter, but it's a lot more practical and more efficient.
Like, so efficient I wonder if the Vulcans use the same system on their ships. If not, I would wonder why not.