If you had one or the other in your home (and you must have one or the other) would you chose to have a six inch black hole in your bedroom or a six inch white hole?
As you realize the black hole will suck in your stuff and thrust it out elsewhere in the universe, while a white hole in theory would expel things out of it into your home. Even though white holes are still unproven and theortical, the one in your house would definitely work as advertised.
Please assume the same rate of object sucking/object expulsion for the purpose of this question: one object per day, and the white hole expels the same assortment of household items that the black hole removes from homes.
Which do you choose, and why that one one over the other?
I like my stuff, I don’t want to lose it to the black hole.
Really interesting stuff could come out of the white hole. Maybe socks and underwear would show up rather than disappearing.
Maybe the household shit in different universes is really cool and if it’s not, well, that’s one less thing (per day) that I need to buy for my house.
If a killer Grablovian parasite from Krantock IV shoots outta there, well, I’m probably going to pissed but I’ll deal.
Can I use the black hole as a trashcan? (Can you save the earth that way, or is it worse to trash up the other side of the universe?) I’d never have to change trash bags or wash down the cans… or is it going to eat random things in my house, like the quilt I made?
OTOH it would be pretty interesting to have random alien stuff coming into my house every day. I bet I could make a fortune selling alien artifacts to crazy Internet billionaire collectors.
You’ve hit on one of my pet peeves here. A black hole is not some sort of cosmic vacuum cleaner. Instead, it’s just a very high density object that follows the same rules of gravity as anything else. So you’re not going to get one object per day sucked up; you’re going to get everything accelerating towards it at a rate determined by its mass. My back of the envelope questions suggest that a six inch diameter black hole weighs about 1.1 * 10[sup]27[/sup] pounds, whereas the mass of the earth is a mere 1.3 * 10[sup]25[/sup] pounds, so you’re talking about something that will seriously throw off the orbits of all the nearby planets. I don’t think I’d want one of those in my house.
I don’t have the formulas for the white hole handy, but I’m guessing one that large would instantaneously vaporize at least my house, if not the entire city. I don’t think I’d want one of those either.
But to play along, I would much rather have new things appear than to have old things disappear. It’s easier to throw things away than it is to replace them.
Fine, call it “hammerspace in” and “hammerspace out” if you have to.
I think I’d take the “black hole,” assuming there is guaranteed to be an exit somewhere with no ill effects on organic matter. I mean sure, with a (so-called) white hole I can get stuff, but with the thread-verse black hole I could totally go have an adventure whenever it suited me (er… well, okay, I may end up dead in space, but that would be just as cool).
I already have a white hole. It’s called “my garage” - otherwise known as the indeterminate waypoint for all manner of things that aren’t mine. There’s a surf board, but I don’t surf. I have no idea where those spark plug wires came from. Certainly not my truck as it has coil packs on the spark plugs instead of spark plug wires. And will someone please retrieve their cat food? I don’t have a cat!
As such, I’d love to be able to park a black hole in the back yard so I can lob this weird stuff out of my garage and have it disappear from my life forever.
I’m missing something. Does the black hole randomly suck in something, or do you have to feed it? If the former then I’d much rather have the white hole. If the latter, it would be handy, seeing I already have a white hole called the Thrift Shop.
