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Dr Chaos
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Would it be possible to use a black hole as a weapon?
What I was thinking is that you could use a very powerful gun and some very dense material to make a black hole projectile. All you would need is a bullet in the shape of an elongated sphere with some extremely dense material inside. What would happen, is that the bullet would be fired at such a speed that it lorentz-contracts into its Schwarzschild radius and becomes a very micro black hole. Is this idea plausible? I am quite sure that you cannot move a black hole but can it maintain original momentum? What it is I am struggling with is trying to find the perfect ratio of speed (and lorentz factor) to mass (and lifetime).
Useful formula:
[tex]\gamma \equiv \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2}}[/tex]
Lifetime = 10-28 M3
Where M is mass in grams.
What I was thinking is that you could use a very powerful gun and some very dense material to make a black hole projectile. All you would need is a bullet in the shape of an elongated sphere with some extremely dense material inside. What would happen, is that the bullet would be fired at such a speed that it lorentz-contracts into its Schwarzschild radius and becomes a very micro black hole. Is this idea plausible? I am quite sure that you cannot move a black hole but can it maintain original momentum? What it is I am struggling with is trying to find the perfect ratio of speed (and lorentz factor) to mass (and lifetime).
Useful formula:
[tex]\gamma \equiv \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - v^2/c^2}}[/tex]
Lifetime = 10-28 M3
Where M is mass in grams.
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