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Step 6Hook Up the (Super)Computer
When the laser hits the bead, it will create a temporary star.
Take a very fast computation computer (You could grab one from a server room...or from IMB or someone else like that) and program it so it will fire the carbon launcher just as the star starts to die. The connections between the launcher and the computer should be nice and tidy, so there should be no "frayed or fragmented" pieces. Make sure to double check your programming, or else this will create a large pile of useless hydrogen-carbon bonds, instead of a black hole.
Take a very fast computation computer (You could grab one from a server room...or from IMB or someone else like that) and program it so it will fire the carbon launcher just as the star starts to die. The connections between the launcher and the computer should be nice and tidy, so there should be no "frayed or fragmented" pieces. Make sure to double check your programming, or else this will create a large pile of useless hydrogen-carbon bonds, instead of a black hole.
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I always enjoy these conversations, because at the end of the day, no matter who agrees with what, no on actually knows. We're studying an object, like you said, that we can't even see, who's very nature is to prevent any particles from escaping it's field. I'm always willing to debate these things, but I never put that much faith in them.
And also, the big problem with the computers, isn't necessarily how fast something can be processed, but how many things can be processed at the same time. You can't do it in a linear fashion, because your individual reaction calculations will be flawed. They must all be done at the same time.
This is cheaper and faster than everything on this page, except for the Gulftown which is 4 times more expensive and only 300MHz faster.
A singularity is an (almost) infinite mass of (almost) infinite density. There is nothing in this universe - nor, probably, in any other - that does not require more energy to destroy than to maintain, so you'd need practically infinite energy, properly focussed, to destroy it.
But to achieve the required levels, you'd have to harness all the energy in the universe, as well as convert all the universe's mass into energy - which you can't do, partly because the loss of life would be far higher than the Black Hole would ever account for, but you'd also have to convert all the singularities in the universe into energy...
So, the destruction of the singularity you're aiming at (ignoring the fact that you've already converted the mass of your 'gun', along with its guidance systems, and yourself into energy) would require its own mass to be converted to energy, as well as that of everything else - which would then be pointless, as the singularity itself would no longer exist...
And, no, you can't stop at converting the singularity to energy, because that would require almost as much energy as 'simply' destroying it.