I had never thought that strangelet growth dynamics would be dominated by them being exothermic, so that they heat protons away from them and that hampers their growth.
About tiny black holes, another possible use for them would be simply as bombs themselves, right? Evaporation should be catastrophic and highly energetic for unstable black holes, and basically free up amounts of energy.
The issue is that they decay too fast! You’d be focusing immense energy into a tiny point just for that energy to be immediately released; why not just cut the middle-man and aim your immense energy beams directly where you want?
I guess I’m thinking about whether it could be an amplifier of some kind—your immense energy beam hits something compressing the matter to that kind of critical extent and thus adding its energy to the process. But I suppose ultimately it’d pretty much cost as much to compress as is released on evaporation so probably not a particularly useful addition.
I had never thought that strangelet growth dynamics would be dominated by them being exothermic, so that they heat protons away from them and that hampers their growth.
About tiny black holes, another possible use for them would be simply as bombs themselves, right? Evaporation should be catastrophic and highly energetic for unstable black holes, and basically free up
The issue is that they decay too fast! You’d be focusing immense energy into a tiny point just for that energy to be immediately released; why not just cut the middle-man and aim your immense energy beams directly where you want?
I guess I’m thinking about whether it could be an amplifier of some kind—your immense energy beam hits something compressing the matter to that kind of critical extent and thus adding its energy to the process. But I suppose ultimately it’d pretty much cost as much to compress as is released on evaporation so probably not a particularly useful addition.