Artificial Singularity

An artificial singularity is a miniature black hole that has been artificially formed, usually for the purposes of energy production in a singularity reactor. They must be carefully contained within a magnetic field to prevent their gravitational effects from affecting their surroundings, and have an operational lifetime of between 20 and 200 years, depending on their mass.

There is also a second use for artificial singularities: wormhole generation. By splitting the singularity apart into an entangled pair during creation using grid control technology, the pair can facilitate a wormhole, and be used to transport information or mass in a wormhole relay or portal system. Such singularities remain microscopic until saturated with enough energy; they then consume energy based on the distance and how much information or mass is flowing. They also emit a minimal amount of Hawking radiation due to their much higher mass.

History

Singularity generation technology was first trialled by humanity in the early-2200s, after recent advances in the study of Precursor technology made it possible to construct neutronium electron lattice cells and achieve the instantaneous energies required for implosion-type singularity generation. A site was selected for the orbital implosion facility, which was to be a joint Coalition effort overseen by many organisations, including the Interdimensional Research Treaty Organisation (IRTO) and the Interstellar Space Agency (ISA).

Creation

Singularity creation begins with the selection of a sufficiently large asteroid, with a mass of between $10^{8}$ and $10^{9}$ kgs. Higher mass asteroids are selected for singularities to be used for wormhole formation; lower ones are used for power singularities. The asteroid is brought, via the aid of hauler fleets with tractor beams, to an orbital singularity implosion facility, which is a massive space installation that contains a huge, spherical hull. Inside the hull, mass is shaved off the asteroid, and it is sandblasted and polished into an almost perfectly smooth sphere to ensure perfectly symmetrical laser convergence.

Next, the implosion chamber is saturated in entropic radiation generated by an on-site cavity reactor that uses intensely powerful particle beams to excite a galraite core. This radiation field is powerful enough to completely destabilise the manifolds that make up the mass of the asteroid, allowing the electron and neutron degeneracy pressure of the atoms that make up the asteroid to be much more easily overcome.

Exawatt-class lasers, powered by neutronium electron lattice cells, are then fired and converge on the asteroid, instantaneously collapsing it inwards with enough force to crush it below its Schwarzschild radius. An extremely high voltage is then applied across the forming singularity to give it an electric charge to allow it to be contained. Magnetic containment generators are then switched on, holding the newly formed singularity in stasis until the chamber cools down and the waste gases within are vented. It can then be transferred to specialist magnetic containment containers and transported to its final destination.

Disposal

During their operational lifetimes, artificial singularities shrink, and the radiation they emit gradually becomes more intense. When a singularity completely exhausts its mass, it eventually destabilises and evaporates in a massive gamma-ray explosion; though historically the methodology for this has been to let it explode naturally in deep space, humanity has now engineered radiation-capture methods to make use of this energy instead of wasting it.