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What I'm wondering is what we know about the consequences of attempts to push one beyond that limit. Most sources I've dug up just go with "naked singularities can't happen, so this is impossible; the laws of physics won't let it spin any faster", but it's the detail of how that works out in practice I'm curious about. (edited)
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That message popping up on your blue box (i.e., the widget that talks to the gate) just means that the gate's got a lock on a wormhole that will get you your destination at the right t, in the empire-time reference frame.
(Fiddling with that step - skew-framing - is what lets you try to do Stupid Time Travel Tricks, which might even not kill you. Omitting that step... well, that'll kill you pretty definitely. Urban legends about starships which screwed this up and met dinosaurs/were eaten by the Cold Ones/fell right out of the universe/made bank on next year's stock prices aside.) (edited) 1 1 1 1 1
) But looking at first at just the one atom of hybrid helium, right, we've got two protons in the nucleus, one muon in the 1sm, and one electron in the 1se. If what I've been told is correct, that behaves like hydrogen - so we get a hHe2 molecule in which there are two electrons in the 1se2, and the 1sm orbitals don't get close enough to participate in the bonding. 1 1 1 1 1
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4 - I screwed up my calculations the same way the Bioware writers did, but since that is published canon now, I'm kinda stuck with it. Please pay no attention to the frantic handwaving behind the curtain.)) (edited)
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The first 300 nanometer impulse only explosively vaporized part of the skin layer at Martinezβ neck into plasma. But it was followed by hundreds of more impulses, and so they drilled.
Martinezβ neck exploded in a flash of harsh blue-white, flinging tissue, metal droplets, shattered nanoceramics and burning c-allotropes everywhere as cubic centimeters of matter were vaporized under photonic hammer blows. )ranging from "imperfect but workable" to "haha, my exotic matter armor *perfectly reflects all photons in to deep gamma rays!*" breaks out the electron beams
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wormhole-based munitions to be honest, not sure how lightweight a wormholes are possible since talking with Kerr. 
Wormholes have been defined both geometrically and topologically.[further explanation needed] From a topological point of view, an intra-universe wormhole (a wormhole between two points in the same universe) is a compact region of spacetime whose boundary is topologically trivial, but whose interior is not simply connected.
you make the wormholes or inflate them or w/e. They're arbitrarily close. You push them apart, they're now a few feet apart. Timewise, they're separate so that if a event occurs at either end arbitrarily close (or inside) the mouth of it, you see it instantly at your end and X distance-time later at the other end
(And tangle transmission is effectively instantaneous, but what you do at each end is, of course, affected by the local time dilation. So if you're cruising along at 0.9c with one end of the tangle channel, flipping bits at what (in your reference frame) is 9600 baud, your 43.59% time dilation relative to the end you left at home means that your signal is being received at the other end, in theirs, at 4,184 baud.
In short, that's some painful netlag.)
((And, no, that's not a representative bandwidth for tangle channels.)) from just above
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β¦also, give up on playing MMOs or multiplayer games with anyone off the ship, no matter how much tangle you brought. Timeslip is much worse than netlag.) 3
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