Artificial Gravity/ Black Hole Creation

Posted by jmvizanko on July 18, 2003 at 14:26:56:

My question is directed at anyone good with mathematics, astrophysics, and mechanical engineering. I am lousy at mathematics and I have been struggling to calculate the feasibility of a hypothetical device I thought up. The device I am referring to would be a solar powered satellite that would produce magnetic fields to constantly accelerate (slowly and over a LONG time) and thus add kinetic energy to a super-strong substance of some kind that would hover in the middle of the fields and be open to the vacuumm of space. Such a device could hypothetically (if the rotating material was strong enough) approach a radial velocity that would contract the substance to form an artificial black hole, or even a substance that would have a large and useful gravitational field. Such large gravitational fields could be very useful in anti-gravity research and space propulsion. I was just curious if there is the possibility of such a substance, that if rotated to a high enough radial velocity, would contract onto itself faster than it would break apart from the centripetal acceleration. Even if a black hole cannot be created with any known substance by this method, I am still curious what is the maximum potential of such a device with the best substance available. If anyone knows of anyone else who has gone down this road already, or has any relevant math worked out, could you please let me know. Thanks for any information, and I'll keep working on it myself.

Josh Vizanko
jmvizanko@students.wisc.edu

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