I just spent 10 minutes explaining an idea for a starship in my story that uses an artificial neutron star as a power source…

@TryingtoLava Power everything else, I guess.

@Straylight so you could techhhhnically make a time machine right? I mean with all that power you could make a worm hole

Ok, back from LAX now.

The starship it’s in is roughly 150km in diameter with a 75km void at the center that houses a 10km artificial neutron star which is held in place by magnetic compression fields that both keep the star stable and control the gravitational fields emitted. The void is lined with photo thermal voltaic cells for direct energy conversion at a 98% efficiency rate. The power is used for the general operations of the ship and living quarters for over 3 million inhabitants as well as defensive and offensive systems. The main power draw is the blink drive, which uses magnetic manipulation to open a wormhole to jump the ship from point to point within the empire.

@TryingtoLava While time travel is theoretically possible this way, it’s not a part of the plot. Besides, my own solution to the grandfather paradox makes time travel boring anyway.

@Straylight Love the battery idea! But wouldn’t the act of using the battery’s power break the entanglement? As I understand it, entanglement is broken in the act of observation, which is science speak for any interaction of any kind…two atoms bumping each other is an act of observation. But I’m just an armchair physicist so I could easily be wrong, lol

@Zaphod42 good luck with your story... And sorry if i came across as being nit picking

@Convivial Nit picking is helpful really…I’m shooting for hard science fiction, so if I’m getting a thing wrong, it’s better to know before it’s committed to a plot point 🙂

@Zaphod42 that's a good attitude to have...i do wish you success... Maybe make it a very small neutron star lol

@Thevy29 Same basic concept, but I thought a black hole producing power would be a little harder to try and explain, lol

@GeniUs Yeah, I know, I don’t intend to use all the details in the story, but I need to have it all straight in my head how it works and the science basis for how it could theoretically be done so the story stays within a framework. Even though the audience will never see most of the foundation, it’s still important for the house they do see, lol