2009/08/12 by Louis Crane, Shawn Westmoreland, Crane, Louis +1 · 3 voices
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0908.1803
We investigate whether it is physically possible to build starships or power sources using the Hawking radiation of an artificial black hole as a power source. The proposal seems to be at the edge of possibility, but quantum gravity effects could change the picture.