If the Romulan warbirds are powered by quantum singularities, what happens to said singularities if the ship is destroyed? Does it leave a tiny black hole where the ship once was? Is it, therefore, a healthy idea to destroy a Romulan ship that is orbiting a planet that you want to keep around for awhile? I mean, granted, it might not suck up the planet like Vulcan got sucked up from within in the last "Star Trek" movie, but it would cause a significant problem that would be very tricky, if not impossible, to resolve. Has this been addressed on the board, or in a novel?
Romulan warbird quantum singularity
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The singularity is artificial, probably produced by an artificial gravity generator or something. Probably it is setup in such a way that it takes less power to generate the gravity field than the reactor core produces, so the ship can operate indefinitely as long as it has a steady supply of fuel.
Why isn't it a mini black hole, such that if it is not fed matter, it starts to radiate Hawking radiation until it no longer exist?
I presume there was no canonical data on mass?
I presume there was no canonical data on mass?
If it's a micro singularity, its collapse may be no more than what happens with a warp core breach perhaps. A big bang that blows the ship apart, but isn't around long enough to do anything else.
Because it's never called a "mini-black hole," it's called a "forced quantum singularity" and is further described as an "artificial gravity well" whose properties are subtly but meaningfully different from real ones. I presume--as I did above--that this is because there's no ACTUAL singularity at the center of the core, just a powerful field of artificial gravity being maintained electrically using the surplus energy from the core itself.
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