Re: FT: Vortex gravity gradient question

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Evans" <devans@nebraska.edu>
>
> Thanks, Karl, for pointing out something I started to jump on. From
Black
> Hole, to Wing Commander, the point has been that the only major
difference
> between these bodies on passing ships is that you may be able get
close
> enough to a black hole to the point where tidal forces are more
damaging
> than EM output (light, heat, hard radiation, etc.).
>
> Course, the really big singularities, 'eats suns for breakfast',
appear to
> have accretion disks that give off enough energy approaching the event
> horizon to negate this.
>
> Or is my own Saturday morning physics way off base?

No, you are quite right.

I must say that I had forgotten about the tidal effects and the
accretion
disk.

In game ters, you might want to define a zone around your black hole
where a
ship may be damaged rather than destroyed outright. Treat a ship that
enters
that zone as if the black hole were firing a beam weapon (or whatever
weapon
you chose for your rule) at it.

Further in, it would be destroyed, of course.

Greetings
Karl Heinz