The Ellimist
This is kind of bare bones at the moment, but bare with me here.
We know that Luke manages to destroy a vehicle that was protected by a dorvin basal generating micro-black holes. He pulled against the black hole, forcing the basal to tug against him, and then suddenly pushed, sending the singularity reinforced by the basal's own tugging into the vehicle's spine and consuming it.
Let's try to go for the most conservative quantification of Luke's feat from the assumption that the singularities' gravitational pull can be approximated with Newton's law, .ie it resembles a real mass The Star Wars universe can project gravitational effects without just having a proportional amount of matter, but in this case the Vong explicitly call them black holes so it seems to be the consequence of densely packed matter and not some sort of artificial generation. As for why they don't produce more blatant environmental effects...well, it's possible that some anti-gravity is at play here or maybe some other handwavium.
We know that these singularities can pull in flies and insects, and more impressively, missiles and laser cannons. But from what distance? I think it would be a pretty futile defense mechanism if it could only suck in objects that were already going to hit it - there's no way it could deflect blaster bolts from multiple directions if that were true.
So based on some absurdly rough calculations*, I guesstimate that these black holes would mass around 10^14 kilograms, or roughly the mass of Mount Everest.
Now, how quickly is Luke's pulling it? Well, we know that when he reverses course and pushes, it shoves the singularity against the vehicle's spine too quickly for the basal to stop it in time, and yet these basals can move the singularities quickly enough to cover the vehicle. Even if he only accelerates it by one m/s^2, he's exerting 10^14 newtons of force, or about enough to lift every human who has ever walked the Earth simultaneously, or ten thousand Empire State Buildings.
This turned out lot rougher than I thought it would, but I figured it would be a waste not to post it.
* after realizing how ugly and unsolvable any sort of explicit solution would be, I just assumed that a 1 km/s missile (slower than many modern day ones...) is passing the singularity orthogonally from a meter away, and the singularity has a ten meter window with which to suck it in. Assume the missile can't adjust its orbit (despite the proton torpedos doing 90 degree turns into the Death Star's exhaust port -> 20,000+ g's), make a bunch of simplifications for the math's sake -> voila. This is ludicrously haphazard and I might go and check/rework my calcs if I get the time.
We know that Luke manages to destroy a vehicle that was protected by a dorvin basal generating micro-black holes. He pulled against the black hole, forcing the basal to tug against him, and then suddenly pushed, sending the singularity reinforced by the basal's own tugging into the vehicle's spine and consuming it.
Let's try to go for the most conservative quantification of Luke's feat from the assumption that the singularities' gravitational pull can be approximated with Newton's law, .ie it resembles a real mass The Star Wars universe can project gravitational effects without just having a proportional amount of matter, but in this case the Vong explicitly call them black holes so it seems to be the consequence of densely packed matter and not some sort of artificial generation. As for why they don't produce more blatant environmental effects...well, it's possible that some anti-gravity is at play here or maybe some other handwavium.
We know that these singularities can pull in flies and insects, and more impressively, missiles and laser cannons. But from what distance? I think it would be a pretty futile defense mechanism if it could only suck in objects that were already going to hit it - there's no way it could deflect blaster bolts from multiple directions if that were true.
So based on some absurdly rough calculations*, I guesstimate that these black holes would mass around 10^14 kilograms, or roughly the mass of Mount Everest.
Now, how quickly is Luke's pulling it? Well, we know that when he reverses course and pushes, it shoves the singularity against the vehicle's spine too quickly for the basal to stop it in time, and yet these basals can move the singularities quickly enough to cover the vehicle. Even if he only accelerates it by one m/s^2, he's exerting 10^14 newtons of force, or about enough to lift every human who has ever walked the Earth simultaneously, or ten thousand Empire State Buildings.
This turned out lot rougher than I thought it would, but I figured it would be a waste not to post it.
* after realizing how ugly and unsolvable any sort of explicit solution would be, I just assumed that a 1 km/s missile (slower than many modern day ones...) is passing the singularity orthogonally from a meter away, and the singularity has a ten meter window with which to suck it in. Assume the missile can't adjust its orbit (despite the proton torpedos doing 90 degree turns into the Death Star's exhaust port -> 20,000+ g's), make a bunch of simplifications for the math's sake -> voila. This is ludicrously haphazard and I might go and check/rework my calcs if I get the time.