Primordial black holes and a sub-solar mass merger candidate

The Impossibly Light Black Hole Candidate: A recent faint spacetime ripple suggests a sub-solar mass black hole (less than the mass of the Sun). Because stellar evolution cannot produce black holes below roughly 3 solar masses (which instead form neutron stars), this candidate cannot be explained by standard stellar collapse.

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs): If confirmed, this sub-solar mass object would falsify the hypothesis that all merging black holes come from stars. The leading explanation is that it is a primordial black hole formed during the Big Bang, offering a window into the earliest moments of the universe and potentially shedding light on dark matter.

The Physics of Time Travel: In general relativity, theoretical constructs like closed timelike curves or traversable wormholes are sometimes associated with rotating or charged black holes in mathematical solutions. However, actually utilizing them for travel presents insurmountable physical problems. The immense tidal forces, extreme gravitational gradients, and radiation near the event horizon would instantly destroy any macroscopic object or traveler. Furthermore, quantum feedback loops inside such structures are widely believed by physicists to destabilize them before they could ever function as a passage through time.

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Planck relics could possibly be turned into micro-black holes by feeding them particles but they would evaporate via Hawking radiation…

Such a tiny relic would need to be fed with gamma ray particles.

To maintain a micro black hole’s status against Hawking radiation, the rate of incoming mass-energy must match or exceed the rate of mass-energy lost to radiation. For a black hole hovering right at the Planck mass threshold, its theoretical Hawking temperature is near the Planck temperature (roughly 1.4 × 10³² kelvin), meaning its evaporation rate in semiclassical physics is explosive.

Therefore, the ideal “particle” is actually a concentrated beam of ultra-high-energy gamma radiation or neutral energy directed with pinpoint quantum precision, supplying continuous mass-energy to offset any radiative decay without introducing destabilizing electrical charges.

In the lore of the John Titor legend, the C204 Gravity Distortion Unit allegedly relied on two dual-positive micro-singularities rotating at high speeds to bend spacetime and create a traversable time loop. However, moving from internet folklore to established physics, tiny black holes cannot be used to build such a device.

The physical barriers that make this impossible include:

Inability to Contain or Anchor: While micro-black holes possess intense local gravity, they lack the macroscopic mass-energy distribution required to alter global spacetime geometry on a scale large enough to affect a vehicle or a human. Furthermore, they cannot be stably suspended or manipulated with standard magnetic housings.

The Hawking Radiation Crisis: As microscopic black holes lose mass, their temperature skyrockets. Without a continuous, impossibly precise feeding mechanism supplying petawatts of mass-energy every second, a micro-black hole would violently evaporate via Hawking radiation almost instantly upon creation.

Quantum Destabilization: General relativity solutions involving rotating masses or cylinders (like the Tipler cylinder concept) show that quantum backreaction and vacuum polarization divergences destroy spacetime metrics before any closed timelike curve can ever become stable or traversable.

Ultimately, while the concept of using micro-singularities for temporal mechanics remains a compelling staple of science fiction, it violates core principles of thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.

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We may be able to synthesize a microsingularity via matter / antimatter collisions. This provides us with valuable insight as to what a “black hole” is.

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The Large Hadron Collider is already one of the most powerful machines humans have built, yet it operates roughly 15 orders of magnitude below the Planck energy scale. Reaching that level with current accelerator technology would require an accelerator with a radius roughly the size of our galaxy.
The universe has produced extreme conditions that we cannot currently recreate. For instance, when high-energy cosmic rays (including energetic particles from the Sun during solar events) collide with Earth’s atmosphere, they smash into atmospheric nuclei—mostly nitrogen and oxygen—creating a cascade of secondary particles. Possibly some quickly evaporating micro-black holes.

Are you suggesting that magnetic lay lines are steering microsingularities directly to the Earths surface and triggering Earth quakes and other observed phenomena?

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No, I am just saying that they may be the secret ingredient in pop rocks. :collision::star_struck:

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I can’t believe Cern throws data out becasue it seemed useless at the time.

The data could be useful, or… even invaluable in the future to check against new findings.

Like why??? :man_facepalming:

this is what nasa did with all the old moon struff, “said it was gone” it was found in an abandon MaCDonalds. A freaking MCDonalds?!! WTH. :sweat_smile:~QS

Note: I hope it is not really tossed out.


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I am trying to… behave!

“starts eating smashburger mac w/sauce & speaking with mouth half full”

Speafing of somefring from a primerdal back hole!

:grimacing: I need something to clean all my crumbs up. :sweat_smile:

Hmmm, I can’t find my vacuum anywhere,

Well I suppose these two will do!

“Vacuums crumbs” trying to stay on topic & use throwbacks too! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: ~QS

Note: if you watched video till the end “or just fast forwarded it” It says made by “dancing pickle productions”! :laughing: So coool! :+1:

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So we can come to the conclusion that the original Titor was NOT a time traveler.

Posting pictures of moon-heads and music videos means you admit Titor was fake.

The core error is conflating energy release with energy concentration.

What matter-antimatter annihilation actually does: When a particle and its antiparticle collide, they annihilate into photons (or other particle-antiparticle pairs) that fly apart at or near the speed of light. The energy doesn’t compress into a small region — it disperses outward. This is the opposite of what you need to make a black hole.

What making a black hole actually requires: You need to concentrate a given amount of energy within its own Schwarzschild radius — i.e., pack it into a small enough volume that its gravitational self-attraction exceeds every other force. Annihilation is an explosive, outward-radiating process, not a compressive, inward-collapsing one. The reaction products actively resist concentration; they stream away from the collision point.

The energy scale is also wrong by many orders of magnitude. Even the highest-energy collisions humans have produced (LHC, ~10 TeV) are roughly 15 orders of magnitude below the Planck energy (~10^19 GeV), which is the scale at which quantum gravity effects — and semiclassical microscopic black hole formation — are expected to become relevant in standard 4D general relativity. Some beyond-Standard-Model theories with large extra dimensions lower this threshold substantially, which is why LHC microscopic-black-hole searches were performed at all — but they came back null, and matter-antimatter annihilation specifically was never the proposed mechanism in those models (it was high-energy parton collisions at TeV-ish scales in scenarios with extra dimensions, not annihilation events).

So the claim fails on two independent grounds: annihilation is the wrong kind of process (dispersive, not compressive), and even if it were the right kind, it’s nowhere near the right scale.

Topological defects (cosmic strings, domain walls, monopoles) arise when a symmetry-breaking phase transition in the early universe leaves behind regions where the field can’t smoothly relax to its vacuum state — the field configuration gets topologically “stuck.” A cosmic string, for instance, is a line defect where circling around it doesn’t return the field to the same value; spacetime around it is conical rather than flat, with a deficit angle. That’s the “kink” — a genuine, permanent distortion in the geometry, not just a perturbation that dilutes away.

The CTC connection is specific and well-known:

  • Gott’s 1991 solution: two infinite, parallel cosmic strings moving past each other at sufficiently high relative velocity produce closed timelike curves in the region between them. The combined conical deficits from both strings, boosted relativistically, tip light cones far enough that a path can close on itself in time. This is the canonical “cosmic strings → time travel” result.
  • Tipler cylinder (1974, predates the string literature but same spirit): an infinitely long, rapidly rotating massive cylinder drags spacetime around it strongly enough (frame dragging) to permit CTCs outside it. Van Stockum found a related rotating dust solution in 1937.
  • Common thread: all of these need either infinite extent or unphysical energy conditions (negative energy density, or the “infinite cylinder” idealization) to actually work. Finite, realistic cosmic strings don’t produce CTCs — Gott’s mechanism specifically requires the idealized infinite-string limit and superluminal-looking relative motion between the pair.

Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a branch of physics that studies field configurations whose important properties don’t depend on the exact shape or size of space, only on its overall “topology” — the number of holes, twists, or loops it has, in the sense that a coffee cup and a donut are topologically identical but a sphere is not. Discovered independently by physicists and mathematicians in the 1980s, TQFTs strip away most of the messy detail of ordinary physics (distances, angles, local energy) and keep only the global, unchangeable features. This turns out to be enormously useful: it’s the mathematical language behind topological phases of matter (like the quantum Hall effect), certain approaches to quantum gravity, and — most relevant here — a rigorous way to describe defects that can’t be smoothed away no matter how you deform the underlying field.

Topological defects are the physical objects that TQFT-style thinking helps classify. They form when a field undergoes a symmetry-breaking transition — think of water freezing into ice, but happening to a fundamental field that fills all of space, such as one thought to have existed in the very early universe. If different regions of space “choose” slightly different final states as they cool, the boundaries between those regions can get topologically trapped: point defects (monopoles), line defects (cosmic strings), or sheet defects (domain walls), each carrying a permanent kink in the geometry or field structure that ordinary physical processes cannot iron out. Cosmic strings are the most famous candidate for astrophysical topological defects — hypothetical thread-like objects, potentially stretching across the universe, that would warp spacetime into a cone shape around them rather than the usual flat geometry we experience locally.

Turning defects into a time machine is a genuine, if highly speculative, theoretical proposal. In 1991 the physicist J. Richard Gott showed that two long, parallel cosmic strings, passing each other at sufficiently high speed, would each drag spacetime into a cone shape, and where those two cones overlap, light cones tip over far enough to allow a path through spacetime that loops back on itself in time — a closed timelike curve, the technical term for a route a time-traveling observer could follow. A related idea from 1974, the Tipler cylinder, imagines an infinitely long, extremely dense, rapidly spinning cylinder producing the same effect through pure frame-dragging. Both proposals work mathematically within Einstein’s equations, but both also require idealized, physically implausible conditions — infinite length, in particular — that real, finite cosmic strings (if they exist at all) would never satisfy. So while the mathematics genuinely permits time machines built from topological defects, nature almost certainly doesn’t offer the raw materials to build one.

Ok so lets examine your theory as fact for a moment:

A) What is the minimum size a black hole can shrink to and still exist due to hawking radiation?

B) What happens when the singularity mass shrinks beyond the threshold size?

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If particle accelerators were to produce microscopic black holes, they would pose no danger to Earth. Because of their incredibly tiny mass, they would immediately begin losing mass via Hawking radiation and would evaporate almost instantaneously—in roughly 10⁻²⁶ seconds—long before they could swallow any surrounding matter or grow larger. Cosmic rays hitting Earth’s upper atmosphere routinely produce natural particle collisions at energies comparable to or higher than those in human-made accelerators, meaning nature has been safely running these experiments for billions of years.

When the mass of a shrinking black hole drops below the Planck threshold—roughly 10⁻⁸ kg—standard semi-classical physics equations break down completely. Because we lack an experimentally confirmed theory of quantum gravity, what actually happens beyond this boundary depends entirely on the theoretical model being applied. Here are the primary possibilities:

Complete Evaporation and Information Loss In the standard semi-classical extrapolation, the black hole continues radiating until its mass reaches zero, completely vanishing from spacetime. However, this leaves behind pure thermal radiation and implies that all the quantum information trapped inside was permanently destroyed, which directly violates the fundamental unitarity of quantum mechanics.

Stable Planck-Sized Remnants Instead of vanishing completely, evaporation might halt when the black hole hits the Planck mass and Planck length (about 10⁻³⁵ m). This leaves behind a microscopic, stable, and extremely dense particle known as a Planck remnant. These remnants could theoretically persist indefinitely, acting as eternal repositories for the information swallowed during the black hole lifetime.

Quantum Spacetime Transitions and Non-Singular States In advanced frameworks like loop quantum gravity or string theory, the classical notion of a central singularity and a sharp event horizon ceases to exist at this scale. Instead, quantum gravitational pressure can trigger a phase transition or a quantum bounce, turning the collapsing core into a different type of dense object—such as a fuzzball or a white hole precursor—preventing total information loss and avoiding a true mathematical singularity altogether.

Ultimately, because spacetime itself fluctuates violently at scales smaller than the Planck length, standard geometry dissolves into a quantum foam, and physics can only truly describe this realm once quantum gravity is fully solved.

So, it sounds like we dont know what the lower limit size for a black hole is?

The real question is, what is the minimum mass for two black holes so they can generate closed timelike curves for Titor’s time machine without collapsing the time machine into a chuck of debris?

There is no safe mass that would work, because the whole idea of using two black holes to create time loops simply does not exist in the math of Einstein’s equations. In real physics, two black holes placed near each other do not create a pocket of time travel between them; the only known time-loop regions lie deep inside a single rotating black hole, but those zones are violently unstable and would crush anything entering them with infinite tidal forces. Meanwhile, any black hole small enough to fit inside a machine—a so-called “microsingularity”—would generate such extreme gravity gradients that it would rip the machine and its occupant to shreds, and because tiny black holes evaporate almost instantly via Hawking radiation, they would also explode like a nuclear bomb. So John Titor’s dual-singularity time machine is ruled out by basic geometry, catastrophic instability, and the simple fact that mini black holes are inherently self-destructive; if you want time travel in known physics, you would need exotic matter and a wormhole, not a pair of black holes.

Exotic matter is problematic because it violates the null energy condition—a foundational rule of physics that says energy density should never look negative to any observer—which means it would require a substance that weighs less than nothing and repels normal matter, something no experiment has ever detected and that quantum field theory strongly restricts through “quantum inequalities” that prevent large or sustained negative energy. Even if you could conjure such matter, a wormhole throat would be catastrophically unstable: the slightest perturbation would pinch it shut faster than light could cross it, unless you continuously feed it vast amounts of exotic matter to prop it open, and any attempt to turn that wormhole into a time machine triggers violent quantum back-reaction effects that would likely destroy the tunnel before a single particle could travel through it. In short, wormholes demand a form of matter that probably cannot exist in the necessary amounts, and even with it, the structure would be so fragile and self-destructive that it would collapse or explode before it could function as a time machine.

And while the Casimir effect does produce a locally negative energy density between two closely spaced conducting plates, that negative energy is microscopically thin, tightly confined, and dwarfed by the positive energy of the plates themselves, so the total energy of the system remains positive. More importantly, quantum inequalities derived by Ford, Roman, and others show that negative energy can only exist in small, fleeting, bounded pockets—any attempt to scale it up or sustain it long enough to prop open a wormhole throat violates these bounds, causing the energy to snap back to positive values. The Casimir effect is therefore a curiosity of quantum field theory, not a reservoir of the macroscopic, stable, and freely manipulable exotic matter that a traversable wormhole would require.

I. John Titor’s Claims and the Physics of Time Travel

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II. Black Hole Inner Horizons, CTCs, and Stability

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III. Tidal Forces and Survivability Near Black Holes

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IV. Wormholes, Exotic Matter, and Quantum Inequalities

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V. The Casimir Effect and Negative Energy

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  2. L. H. Ford and T. A. Roman, “Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory,” (review article, 2010).
    https://www.academia.edu/91588968/Negative_Energy_Densities_in_Quantum_Field_Theory
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So, we have ZERO idea of how small an ancient black hole could be after it has evaporated.

We dont know what a black hole actually is.

150 years ago it was a scientific fact that humans would never achieve flight.

The 1st European physician administrator to recommend that staff should wash their hands between disecting corpses and birthing babies was placed into a mental institution after the birth mothers stopped dying.

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Sad how that works. :mending_heart: ~QS

“There is a path you can take..”
Is the path J. Richrd III is describing in the video you posted the same path Neil is describing in the short in this reply, and could that also be the same that Tipler describes in his calculations?

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A Stellar sized Titorian time machine probably would not work either but we can speculate.

Gott’s construction requires string tension/mass-energy density right at (or exceeding) limits that violate energy conditions physicists generally believe hold for real matter — later analysis (by Gott himself, and by Deser, Jackiw, 't Hooft) showed you’d need more mass-energy in the strings than exists in the observable universe to build one from scratch.

Because infinite objects cannot exist in our universe, Gott’s model remains a fascinating mathematical solution to Einstein is field equations rather than a practical blueprint for a physical device.

Tyson substitutes “two black holes that haven’t quite collided” as a more visceral, audience-friendly stand-in for “two extreme, rapidly-moving massive/energetic objects producing severe spacetime distortion” — and it’s true that inspiraling black hole binaries near merger do produce some of the most extreme curvature and frame-dragging known in nature, so it’s not an unreasonable physical intuition-pump even if it’s not literally the Gott geometry.

Even setting that aside, you’d be sitting in a region of spacetime tidally violent enough to destroy any ordinary observer — hence Tyson’s joke about watching from a distance.

Theoretically speaking with respect to the physics, in the John Titor lore, the C204 Gravity Distortion Time Displacement Unit relies on two rotating micro-singularities to manipulate gravity and create a Tipler sinusoid. From a rigorous physics perspective, a machine built around microscopic black holes would suffer from an even more extreme version of the tidal force problem.

The intensity of tidal forces at the edge of a black hole scales inversely with the square of its mass. This counterintuitive rule means that smaller black holes have exponentially more violent gravitational gradients at their boundaries than massive ones. While a supermassive black hole can have a gentle enough gravitational gradient near its horizon for a traveler to theoretically pass through, a microscopic black hole possesses a tidal gradient so intensely steep that it would instantly shred molecules and atoms apart, let alone a spacecraft and a human pilot.

Compounding this, micro-black holes governed by standard physics would instantly lose their mass to Hawking radiation and evaporate in a fraction of a second in a catastrophic burst of gamma radiation, unless an active containment mechanism of unimaginable energy could constantly feed them. Therefore, while the concept of utilizing dual rotating singularities to warp spacetime is a brilliant piece of theoretical fiction, the physical reality of micro-singularities makes such a device impossible.

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Topological Microsingularities: Curled-Dimension Release as a Path to the C204

A speculative note — thought experiment, not a claim of established physics

Thesis

What if the “micro-black-hole” signatures predicted at low-scale-gravity energies aren’t curvature singularities at all, but topological defects — localized knots in the field configuration (Hopfions, dual-vortex structures) formed when a small patch of a curled-up extra dimension is momentarily released from its compactified state? Under this picture, a device built to trigger and contain such a release wouldn’t need to reach the true higher-dimensional Planck energy to produce black-hole-like behavior — it would need to locally destabilize the compactification, and the resulting topological singularity would masquerade as a curvature singularity to any 4D instrument probing it.

This reframes John Titor’s C204 schematic — often read as a “dual micro-singularity” device — not as a machine that manufactures two literal Kerr black holes, but as a machine that opens two linked topological release points and threads a controlled path between them.

1. Why topological instead of curvature

A curvature-singularity micro-black hole, in the standard ADD/RS reading, requires concentrating energy up near the true (bulk) Planck scale in a volume smaller than the compactification radius. That’s an enormous engineering ask even if the true Planck scale is diluted down to the TeV range.

A topological defect doesn’t require reaching that energy density everywhere — only at the defect core. Compactified manifolds (a curled circle, a Calabi–Yau cycle, whatever the true geometry is) support soliton-like excitations: localized, stable-ish knots in the field that wind around the compact direction. A Hopfion is exactly this kind of object — a knotted field configuration classified by a topological invariant, stable because unwinding it requires passing through a genuine energy barrier, not because of gravitational binding.

The proposal: a sufficiently sharp, localized perturbation of the compactification (rather than a sufficiently large one) can nucleate such a knot. The knot’s core looks, from the 4D brane, like a point of extreme curvature — because the metric really is extreme there — but its stability and structure come from topology (winding number), not from mass-energy density alone. That decouples “looks like a black hole” from “requires black-hole-scale energy input,” which is the whole engineering leverage this idea is chasing.

2. Where the energy actually comes from

This only works if there’s a store of energy to draw on that isn’t the operator’s input energy. The candidate: the same stabilization energy that keeps the extra dimension curled in the first place (moduli/flux energy, in the earlier framing). If curling is dynamically maintained rather than a fixed geometric background, then a resonant trigger doesn’t need to supply Planck-scale energy — it needs to unlock a local reservoir of it, the way a spark unlocks combustion energy already stored in fuel rather than supplying the fuel’s binding energy itself.

Under this reading, “releasing curled-up dimension energy” is the actual power source of the defect, and the input signal is a trigger, not a supply. This is the load-bearing (and least justified) assumption in the whole piece — see caveats below.

3. Two linked defects, not one

A single such knot is a dead end — a decaying topological blip. Titor’s C204 is consistently described as having two rotating singularity elements. Two linked defects, each a local release point, connected through the bulk rather than through the brane, gives you something closer to a wormhole throat than a single black hole: a short-cut connecting two 4D points via a bulk path shorter than the brane-restricted path between them.

If each release point individually just “looks like” a microsingularity, but the pair, driven in the right relative phase/rotation, opens a bulk channel between them — that reproduces the qualitative shape of the C204 story (two counter-rotating singularities, a stable operating window, a traversal path) without requiring literal stellar-mass-scale curvature anywhere. The counter-rotation in Titor’s account maps naturally onto opposite winding numbers for the two Hopfion-like knots — topologically, you’d want them to be a knot/anti-knot pair so the configuration can close consistently, which is a fairly specific, checkable structural constraint rather than an arbitrary design choice.

4. Where the closed timelike curve comes in

This is the piece that ties back to the earlier braneworld discussion: if the bulk channel between the two defects projects onto the brane as an effective negative or exotic stress-energy region (via the same Weyl-projection mechanism), then the earlier Gott-style requirement — severe, exotic curvature concentrated in a small controllable region — is exactly what a stabilized two-defect channel would locally produce. The topological framing doesn’t just explain the “microsingularity” appearance; it’s specifically trying to supply the exotic-curvature ingredient the CTC mechanism needs, but sourced from bulk geometry rather than from literal negative-mass matter.

5. What would make this false, not just unproven

For this to be worth anything beyond a narrative, it needs concrete failure conditions:

  • No stable knot solutions exist for the relevant compactification topology at achievable trigger energies — i.e., if you actually work out the soliton spectrum for a specific compact manifold and nothing stable shows up below absurd energy, the idea is dead in that geometry.
  • No dynamical curling mechanism — if compactification turns out to be a fixed geometric background with no accessible potential energy (contra the flux-stabilization assumption in §2), there’s no reservoir to unlock, and the “trigger not supply” framing collapses.
  • Weyl-projection sign is wrong — if the induced brane stress-energy from a plausible bulk channel geometry doesn’t come out with the sign needed to violate the relevant energy condition, the CTC piece fails independent of whether the defects themselves are real.
  • Existing sub-millimeter gravity tests already constrain simple ADD-style compactification radii tightly; any concrete version of this needs a compactification scale/geometry that survives those bounds (RS-style warping, not flat ADD-style large dimensions, is the more defensible starting point).

Status

This is a narrative that borrows real structural pieces — Hopfion topology, ADD/RS dilution, braneworld Weyl-projection — and assembles them into a story that would, if each piece held up under actual calculation, reproduce something like the C204’s qualitative behavior. None of the individual load-bearing claims (dynamical curling with accessible potential energy; existence of stable knot solutions at low trigger energy; correct sign on the projected stress-energy) has been checked. It’s a scaffold for a calculation, not a result.

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