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It's been so long since I've had the time to watch Trek and keep up with it these past two years of school. Would someone care to let me know the answer I thought up at work today while talking physics with some fellow employees? Have there been any instances of balckholes being given more than mere passing-mention in Trek? Grnated, there's not but so much you can make them do for a plotline, but I was wondering if they've ever played any role in any episodes. Answers of any kind would be appreciated! Thanks!
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The only instance I can think of is only a maybe. The second ep of Voyager's first season dealt with the ship getting caught in a quantum singularity, which I think is the same thing as a black hole. It was anything but black though.
I believe it was theorized in ST:TMP that V'ger fell into a black hole. And the Romulans use a contained black hole as a power source.
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"Tomorrow Is Yesterday." The Enterprise finds herself in orbit of Earth ca. 1968 after having an encounter with an uncharted "black star" & being slung back in time & across space.
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To...what? "Attention, prisoners. You have recieved your turnips. Begin harvesting blood!"
Anyway, black holes are a semi-common feature. As mentioned, we've got TOS's "black star", which was a pretty good guess, considering it predates the theoretical objects final name of black hole by a bit.
Romulan vessels are powered by micro-black holes, as postulated by Stephen Hawking. (Well, maybe not exactly as postulated, but that's where the general idea comes from.)
One thing that isn't seen too often is a plain old ordinary black hole. Voyager attempted to, but got the physics of the thing so horribly wrong that it's best not to think about it.
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Well, I don't believe they ever actually used the term "black hole" anywhere in Paralax. Just "type four quantum singularity". Would a singularity NESECARILY have to be at the bottom of a black hole? All it really is is a place where the laws of physics no longer apply...
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Kip Thorne describes a singularity as "a region of spacetime where spacetime curvature becomes so great that the general relativistic laws break down and the laws of quantum gravity take over".
A black hole is merely the cloak a singularity wears over its shoulders.
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Sol: In the books, the Dominion was constructing a verteron collider to create an artificial wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant. The mouth of the collider needed to be made out of corzanium, an ultra-light, ultra-strong element found only in black holes. The prisoners had to quantum-step the stuff out of the black holes. And it was rather dangerous work so that's why the POWs were doing it.
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An element found only in black holes? Oy... That's about as believeable as "Spock's Brain"...
A wormhole isn't quite a black hole. A balck hole is a singularity where things go in and don't come back out. A wormhole is a singularity where things go in and come back out somewhere else. But they are both quantum singularities.
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...in a way, you could think of a black hole as a mass of neutrons, since it has no protons at all, you could consider it a new element...
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Ah yes... That one. When the Enterprise went through the black hole, everything was backwards. Space was white and everything. The ships went backwards, old people were babies, etc. Turns out, this was just an alternate reality created by the Wanderers Who Play (IIRC).
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