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How to blow up a sun?
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Gussarde en Welle
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#61 - 2012-10-20 01:43:52 UTC
Faulx wrote:
They opened a wormhole to a black hole and threw it into the sun. The black hole's gravity and time dilation held the gate open longer than normal and also sucked plasma through the opening and out of the sun. After enough matter was removed, the star's internal equilibrium between energy production (that pushes it out) and gravitation (that pulls it in) was disrupted to the point that the star built up an internal velocity inward. The result is typically an implosion shockwave and subsequent explosion of most of the star's outer layers as the shockwave rebounds. There would likely have been some kind of stellar remnant left behind, either a neutron star or a black hole (possibly even a still burning sun depending on the dynamics of the explosion). There's a few other ways a star could die, and they mostly depend on mass and composition.


My contention with this is that a black hole warps physics awesomely around it. If you put one anywhere near a wormhole, to me it seems that it would trigger a major event between the wormhole and the black hole. I mean, this idea is as plausible as many fantasy things, but a full-size black hole above the Chandrasekhar limit would be really hard to imagine transporting safely. I would imagine based on what I know about physics that passing a black hole through a wormhole would either relocate the wormhole, cause the black hole to split into many black holes, create a closed timelike loop that would not be accessible from real space (wormhole and black hole disappear) or ignite a explosion of hawking radiation (like a supernova). Even passing a modestly sized star through a wormhole is a little tough to imagine, but a bonified black hole - wow. It's also difficult to imagine working with ships anywhere near a black hole.