Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 1:42 PM -0400 8/7/01, Mark 'Indy' Kochte wrote:
>
>Chandrasekhar Limit, which is 1.4 M(solar). My info is a little out of
>date (it's been a LONG time since I seriously studied black holes, and
>really most recently only galactic-sized super-massive BHs), but I
think
>there was theoretical evidence that you could have a black hole of 1
solar
>Mass.

It was my understanding that if you were under the 1.4 then a dwarf 
was the result after H-Fe supply burn out and after nova.

>In any event, what Jerry was trying to illustrate is simply that the
mass
>should be irrelevant when looking at the overall gravity well effects.
You
>could look at all masses as point-sources for this exercise, too.

Aye, the question is the slope of the gravity well affecting the FTL 
limit. I guess a way of putting it is what "angle" of gravity well 
slope is a safe FTL transition happy with?
>
>
>Be careful your adjective "larger". Do you mean more volume or more
mass?
>It does play a difference. ;-)

When I say larger, I mean mass. All stars get bigger and smaller 
physically over their lives. Thats why I was questioning the sole use 
of Spectral Class by weber for determination of the Hyper limit.

>IIRC (without having all my texts onhand and no time to spend going up
to
>the library to do this research) the volume of the source plays a role
in
>how wide the gravity well is, but the depth should be essentially the
>same for the same mass.

a more gradual slope vs a really steep slope in other words (giant vs
midlife)

>
>Don't hurt your head on this stuff. Find a good PSB solution.	:-)

Likely I'll find a nice table of star masses and figure an easy 
relationship. I'm still working on the other stuff before I worry 
about some of the constants. I figure most systems with any 
reasonable habitation won't have Giants or close binary's since they 
tend to be unhealthy for life in general. Nice G class V's are likely 
the norm for where humans live....

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