Thank you for your compliments, Loremaster, I do try. As to my "clever" reference to Chandraskhar's limit, I meeeeAAGH!
=stares at his sudden increase in gold-count in shock= Woah...thanks! =immediately deposits all 10,000 in his bank with glee= As I was saying, I merely happen to have read Larry Niven's 'Neutron Star', and remembered the similarities between TH's point and the terminolgy given there to explain black holes, so I looked it up and voila. Like I said, I don't actually understand much of the techno-babble beyond theoretics, but I am intimately interested in it nonetheless. (sp?) Your inability to understand how Hashi makes singularities last is something I'm afraid I can't help with either, save to point out the fact how far in the future the gap series is set, and that we could not possibly comprehend the scientific methods used in such practices in the same way that cave-men could barely comprehend fire, and would never understand the complexities of electric heaters, let alone atomic bombs, whereas we now know intimately about both. In essence, perhaps attempts to fully understand the science behind advanced technology is impossible until our scientists make the concept into fact-based theory . Of course, when they make theory into practice, we'll have to move onto even more advanced questions, and our science fiction writers will have to be very, very imaginitive in order to keep us intrigued. Then again, perhaps in the future, ideas for new technology will still be as easy to come upon as they are now...though personally I think we'll all be well dead by the time singularity grenades become as commonly used as nukes.
don't let that get around) that such things were 'impractical'. The dangers involved with creating, transporting, and using them as a weapon would be prohibitive in the extreme. Though if it could be done, someone would do it. It's an historical fact, and not one that's likely to change in the future.
