Are Black Hole Starships Possible
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-08-14 v1
Abstract
We investigate whether it is physically possible to build starships or power sources using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power source. The proposal seems to be at the edge of possibility, but quantum gravity effects could change the picture.
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@article{arxiv.0908.1803,
title = {Are Black Hole Starships Possible},
author = {Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1803},
year = {2009}
}
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