Forum: Story Ideas

need to come up with some reasonable looking way for the damn thing to get out of the hole or it matters not what it wants to do as it's no threat stuck in the hole.

Hawking radiation.

If it can manipulate the black hole, it could perhaps create gravitational fluctuations that could cause the black hole to move in a controlled fashion or contain coded information.

If it can cause the black hole to move, that on it's own would make the entity a threat.

In my imagination what I called the entity is the black hole. The black hole becomes self aware. It does not need to grow arms or legs to be dangerous. If it gained the ability to make its gravity stronger at one of its poles it could use that to gain the ability to change its location. To go exploring if you will.
Looking back, I think I just repeated what Dominions Son said. Oops

From Wikipedia
"A fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics is that complete information about a system is encoded in its wave function up to when the wave function collapses. The evolution of the wave function is determined by a unitary operator, and unitarity implies that information is conserved in the quantum sense. This is the strictest form of determinism."
That is close enough for this kind of extrapolation. Some of the best SciFi stories I have read go out on weaker theory than this. It's how the writer puts it together that makes it work>

Thanks madnige, I'll see how much is in my "print book" budget and give it a look.

I must apologise, I was working from memory and Google; having the book in my hands now I can say with surity the story is actually 'Lolipop and the Tar Baby' which appears in a few collections, including 'The Barbie Murders'

If you Google for "Xanthia squirmed around in the control cabin" (a line from a couple of pages in) you'll find the Google Books page and a few others, which will let you see if you want to dig out a desd-tree version.

IIRC (because I can't find the correct dead-tree) the hole in 'The Black Hole Passes' is a dumb hole which disrupts comms between two listening stations, resulting in the destruction of both. When one caretaker rescues the other they hug (with suits on) and compare this to making love through an inner tube, being much better than the making love by postcard they were doing before...

[Another edit to add] Having remembered the name Treemonisha from TBHP and Googled, I can give a search term of "He walked back to the desk and sat down before the computer digest of the three trillion bits" (search for it all, including the quotes) which gives a single result where it seems someone posted it to a foreign forum, if you want to check that out before spending money.

In a black hole, matter would be compacted too tightly to allow for neural networks, which require space and electrical connectivity.

This is not strictly true. It would require energy flows across defined paths, but there really isn't any specific reason why that energy has to be electricity.

The other thing is that the laws of physics as we understand them break down at the event horizon. We have nothing but speculation as to what conditions might actually be like inside the event horizon. There is no hard science to cover what might or might not be inside the event horizon.

Space itself distorts drastically under the massive gravity of a black hole. It could even be bigger on the inside than it appears from the outside.

I think this would have to rely more on what is not known about self-awareness without stepping too heavily on the toes of accepted theory. It would be more speculative while attempting to avoid becoming fantasy.