If you could , would you pilot into the center of a black hole?
What do think you would find if you did?
2007-10-16 05:47:00 · 11 answers · asked by LOST IN SPACE 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
OK, share your theory on the type you think could work.
No idea is to big or to small.
I want to hear them.
2007-10-16 05:55:13 · update #1
2 questions 2 answers
Momentum. once you've started moving in space, you tend to keep moving until something interacts with you.
I'd use solar generated power and ion thrusters, but momentum will get me further after all is said an done
in a black hole?
I would find death.
a blackhole DESTROYS matter. now if I was a quantum particle it might be a different story.
in my ship, I'd bombard the Blackhole with a graviton particle and attempt to manipulated them from "our side"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling
perhaps spanning a gravity "bridge" into another universe/dimension
2007-10-16 05:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. It depends on where you want to travel to and how long you want to wait until you get there - you can orbit around the sun indefinately without expending any more energy than you needed to get there in the first place. There aren't any engines or even conceptual engines that don't use some kind of fuel - the most 'efficient' are ion drives that have very low thrust, but can run for a long time - powered with a reactor, you might be able to go a couple years without refueling... you could 'sail' using solar wind as the propulsion system via giant mylar 'sails' - they wouldn't use fuel, but wouldn't get you anywhere very fast...
As for piloting into a black hole, - the tidal forces would shred you and your space craft if you got anywhere near the event horizon unless the black hole was galaxy sized - things would be different inside, but no tellin how!
2007-10-16 12:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by Steve E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An element engineered to be really high in atomic weight might work, I heard of one several years ago on the Art Bell show, I can not remember the element but the guest speaker claimed to have seen it in action at area 51. If I could travel into a black hole I don't know if my survival instinct would overpower my innate curiosity. They may be gates to other universes or they may be the real equivalent of hell, how is one to know?
2007-10-16 12:58:33 · answer #3 · answered by Princessa Macha Venial 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one way to travel in space without fuel: use a light sail! You can even accelerate it with lasers to give it an initial push.
You can also have Bussard ram jet which would use magnetic fields to scoop up interstellar hydrogen for fusion fuel. You'd have to get it going pretty fast before this would work.
As for black holes - any ship would be torn apart by tidal forces just getting near one.
2007-10-16 15:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
best fuel in the universe (besides dark energy possibly) would be controlled matter/anti-matter annihilation. it is the only 100% efficient process in the universe. but you wouldnt need to get alot of fuel. we only really need fuel to get out of earths atmosphere. in space theres virtually no friction so theres no reason for fuel to be continuously burned.
and no i would not pilot into a black hole. because we already know what we would find. a singularity with infinite density and the death of the whole crew and all of us in the ship being crushed into a single point.
2007-10-16 19:21:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the pilot was inside a black hole, he would lose his status as "organic matter" really fast.
However, since there is no friction, if you had an initial trajectory that was perfectly premeditated and executed, you wouldn't need any fuel after launch, you'd just never come back...
2007-10-16 12:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by Derek T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well you could pickup hydrogen as you traveled and use that for propulsion via fusion, but forget about the black hole you would die a nasty dead from the forces of gravity long before you ever go inside.
2007-10-16 12:50:22 · answer #7 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A search engine powered by gigabytes and in the center of a black hole would be total darkness
2007-10-16 12:51:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
None.
No.
I would find out how it feels to die on a medieval torture rack.
I think I prefer to let you invent that fuel, I will let you pilot the ship and I will let you report about the inside of the black hole. And I, in the meantime, do something useful with my life.
;-)
2007-10-16 12:56:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
unfortunately there is no fuel/engine we could use in space to travel forever without having to refuel.
well i bet there will be one after hundreds of years.
2007-10-16 12:50:32 · answer #10 · answered by SIMONE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋