Here are some pictures of white holes. If you click on the diagrams, they will explain everything...

              In grateful memory of Master Inventors #1 through # 35...




The Space Modulator works by causing space to expand violently, then collapse back on itself. It does this by means of a white-hole generator that focuses through the weapon's tube. As you know, a white hole is the opposite of a black hole, which is a point of infinite density into which all matter (and even light) within its' expanding field of gravity is pulled. In theory all matter and energy will eventually be sucked into the black holes that dot our physical universe. Where does all that stuff go? When a critical threshold is reached, it turns itself inside-out and explodes into another dimension as the beginning of a new universe, in what we could call a "White Hole" or a "Big Bang".

The space modulator aligns the nano-black-holes that exist between quarks, causing them to cancel each other out for just a micro-nano-teensysecond. The result is a nano-white hole that causes space to erupt at the location where you point the weapon. It's not exactly an eruption of space per se, (the difference is not worth quibbling about because the effect is the same), but when the black holes cancel each other, the pressure from the nearest white hole in the nearest adjacent universe bursts through from there to here.  The energy thus released is so vast and intense that it can tear apart even a third-magnitude planet, despite the fact that the white hole's size is at its' maximum about a millionth of the head of a pin. (Your aim had better be precise!)

 You'll remind me, of course, that an artificial white hole must be extremely unstable, and you'll be right. However, it doesn't matter if it collapses,  if all you want to do is explode space in the middle of a targeted planet. The main obstacle to getting this to work is the tendency of white holes to explode into the wrong universe. If that happens you get no "bang" at all, leastways not here.

Next entry: Gravity wave resonance, the discovery of an unexpected method for tuning the white holes to expand into this universe, with a footnote on thwarting attempts by long-eared creatures to undermine your efforts...







The IQ36ESM

Here's a new feature on the Lair: the "Aliens' Field Notes". These are selected entries from a tattered and stained book I found in the Roswell city dump. I had to figure out how to translate what the funny-looking text was saying, but I think it was worth the effort. I still don't know what the stains are...do aliens drink coffee?

historkl : a commodity of supreme value to earth people, one which is capable of setting off furious and frenzied disputes in their smaller, older communities. see also: prezzirvayshn, Natchez, and "Societyfor"

foot-bowl : an object used in a religious ritual that is repeated weekly by earthers. Some scholars say this was a hygienic practice initiated by one of their prophets as a gesture of humility (reference "Gzus"), while others say it is a structured form of combat. All we have been able to establish for certain is that some of these bowls are definitely better than others (reference "superb-bowl").

Merkans: the dominant life form on this puzzling planet. Apparently none of the other bipedal life forms like merkans, yet they all attempt everything in their power to emulate them.

Sekks: a truly revolting gymnastic activity of the earthers, one which causes them no end of distress and turmoil, but of which they cannot ever get enough. The bipeds rationalize it by pointing out that it is done also by "brds" and by "beez", but our field observations find no evidence of this.

Bootists: We think these are either members of a religious faction, or else manufacturers of footwear for herders of large food-animals.

Peking Duck: What those who spy on unclothed females do when caught.