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That’s an interesting take. Reminds me of the change in America’s nuke doctrine in the early 1960s… the changeover from multi-megaton nukes to MIRVs, with their smaller yield, independently targeted vehicles.

I'll go with "lame". Bigger is not automatically better. A solar system is about as big as you can go and still meaningfully say that things are within the sphere of influence of a single weapon. Trying to go beyond that means you need to scale an already astronomical weapon up another hu...

madd0ct0r wrote:why are you so keen to use obscure hard science to power obvious magic?

Are you saying that this belongs in the fantasy forum?

I dunno; because it helps to have an obscure gimmick to sell a ms in this SF publishing business?

That's very interesting, the change of decay speed. As powerful as a quasar, huh? What about changing a super-massive black hole weighing in at millions of solar masses? The uber aliens are like Q, they can pull it off, their tech is that advanced; they can do anything they can imagine. That mass in...

Greetings :). Anyone hear of the concept of mass inflation?* I read in a science quarterly that a 5 solar mass black hole will ramp up to 10^57 times the mass of the observable universe due to something called mass inflation. That wankerfully huge mass is completely hidden from view, inside a horizo...