that face in the 5th panel LOL

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup. ^^

For real though

The eyes in the 6th!

...you mean the 5th?

My thoughts exactly XD

The greatest achievement in their civilization's history one second....the harbinger of their civilization's downfall the next?

Too true

Why does this seem like a Dr Octopus (spiderman 2 movie) energy scenario about to go critical and self sustaining and can't shut it off?

Heh it's how lot think that when a neculear reactor going critical is a bad thing when it infact refers to it being operational within parameters, a meltdown is the bad term

My uncle (a former engineer on a nuclear sub) actually tells me of a hazing ritual that allegedly is popular among nuclear engineers using that idea. They just comment the reactor is critical in very loud voices and check who immediately runs like hell out of the room.

Heh worked on an aircraft carrier in engineering department, auxilary and reactor departments so yea was fun to see and play some jokes on new people. Like get me the key to the sea chest.

How many army guys did you have to watch the gauges?

Sorry was navy, my father was army, but on ship for the most part we had walls full of pressure and temp. gauges heh I was even set on a watch for 8 hours a day even just to watch 3 gauges as a regulator failed and we had to manually bypass it

By army guys I meant the little plastic figures. A friend who is a Chief told me it is a common thing to see.

Never had them watching gauges, only the machinery, and has like 46 per plant

Hmmm... Talking about watching gauges reminds me dirty jobs where Mike Rowe was in one place to do 'hand made' bricks, and there's one guy who spends all day every day staring at all them, making sure temperature/settings were good... Mike went back like 6 times and nothing ever happened during his time there... which was probably a good thing.

Not a nuclear engineer, but for those that are, do they not learn the technical terms, especially the difference between critical and meltdown, so as to not confuse the two? That sounds dangerous not knowing the difference when on the job, but you tell me.

^^

love the hand on the butt

White hole core hmm, all I can think of is 'that better not be a kugelblitz'

Technically yes, but I could see one calling a kugelblitz a white hole since it is a black hole made of of light (which kinda matches the whole black aura thing). Depends how sci fi this is going if it's going the wormhole direction with an actual white hole or not heh.

think this is more being literal; a white hole is a general relativity theory of a black hole but in reverse; instead of consuming and absorbing anything and everything a white hole can only emit things generally massive fountains of radiation and energy waves.
kinda similar to the theory of zero point fields in quantum physics, probably in this case the "white hole core" being a zero point field energy reactor

Love that ass grab lol.

I smell a catastroph incoming... *hides somewhere*

Considering what a white hole is, as well the age not being recorded "because of the speed and nature of its fall", I would be surprised if this didn't end horribly.

I wander if this somehow has something to do with him being... well, as far as we can tell almost immortal? Or at least immortal enough to live through several ages - each of which was preceded by a seeming world-ending event~

Oh yeah. I see this going SUPER well. Yep! Nothing bad is EVER going to happen!

From a series of shows and comics when something with 'hole' is revealed, It cant end well @-@

I mean, that hole next to him is pretty white from the last couple of pages as well.

That hole looks more black than white to me.

Ah, but that's because a white hole can contain absolutely nothing, or it'll break. Not even light can enter it ;) So, it's black.

"Please do not litter, it'll literally destroy the world" signs placed around it

Absolutly nothing can enter a white hole, only exit, like how a black hole can only be entered, but not exited; because of how spacetime is warped inside a blackhole, you can't even point a rocket in an outward direction and burn all your fuel in a futile attempt to escape, because past the event horison, spacetime is warped such that all directions point inward, and no direction points out; space and time sort of flip such that pointing your rocket 'out' of a black hole would be like putting on a pair of shoes and walking in the direction of the past; all paths lead inward, as inevitible as the future. A white hole should be much the same, if opposite, and is in many ways a time-reversed black hole; nothing can enter, because spacetime is warped such that no path exists which leads inside, things inside can only travel out, and nothing outside can enter. And things can very much exist inside.

AFAICT you seem to be working off a line from the wikipedia entry or the ilk? That seems to be from a paper, only part of the relevent section of which is previewable and tends to go over my head, which is talking about matter falling onto a white hole at what sounds like it may be the moment of formation(or maybe it's just at the start of what they're modeling?), but instead of 'breaking' it it's tipping it over into a black hole. I assume the mass/energy density of a white hole's output is a hair below that needed to collapse it into a black hole, so pretty much anything will push it over, causing a black hole event horizon to form around the white hole, so the explosion of matter/energy can't escape?

But a white hole can indeed comtain stuff(which it will promptly start dumping into it's surroundings); it's called a white hole because it radiates, can only radiate, classically in the form of a massive explosion. White holes are possible explinations for the Big Bang, or certain gamma-ray bursts. Possibly the output of a black hole into another universe at the moment of it's formation, possibly a new big bang.

Even if you had a non-emitting white hole, I AFAICT it wouldn't be black, because black is an absence of light, while the room is well lit and light falling on the white hole physically cannot be absorbed by it, but AFAICT would be bend outwards, and so appear as if it was reflective (probably distorted.. somehow, I dunno).

Of course I'm not an expert and for all I know you know more about this stuff than I do. But it feels off; PBS Spacetime has an interesting youtube video on them.

That said, this isn't exactly har sci-fi, so you have as muchh widdle room as you want. But when I saw White Hole I was expecting ball'o'light, pr possibly Reformat Universe: Y/N, not a ball of darkness, unless that's like a shroud to protect it, but I expect you have your own fictional physics to fit into your world building.

Don't think too hard on the science part of it. It's science fiction, emphasis on the fiction ;)

I usually don't, but sometimes it's fun, and other times it's just confusing. Sometimes both!

A black whitehole is a bit... rather counterintuitive.

An 'idle' white hole wouldn't be outputting - probably impossible like a massless blackhole but technobabble handwavey artifical sci-finess - also wouldn't be black, but, eh, could say the thing iss generating negative energy as a byproduct operating, the result of the white hole's entrophy instability - energy is conserved, you've just invented a cosmic thermodynamic credit card - and that negative energy created just by idling the thing is canceling out the light around it. Which would be kind of terrifying in a "this thing is not sufficently shielded" but I'm sure they're probably run the numbers and didn't forget to carry the 2.

Or it's wrapped in some kind of bizarre dark matter shielding that supresses it to the point of being basically timelocked. Either way, I'll figure out a good mumbo jumbo explanation for it by next weekend :p

I'm probably wrong...(at least I hope I am) but if Hadalen is the "good guy" and his line is some sort of protectors now with that magic, His buddy there or someone close to them will end up being the opposite force or world destruction bringer. Just speculation and i hope i am wrong.

The white hole core?

Interesting it looks black. Could this be the origin of two of the magics that seem to color align with those colors. Could be interesting that we might be seeing where Fenfen's magic comes from originally.

Mmmmmaaaaaybe ;)

and no red button? :(

you always do some of the best facial expressions <3

Alfred: "This isn't the only dark hole I've been excited to slide into today!"

Oh no, that's not a good idea.

Am I reading too much into this? The White Hole Core? why do I think about the dude that was ploughed?

Hmmmm. Dark sphere of menacing looking power with what looks to be enormous amount of energy emminatting from it... Seems fine to me, SCIENCE SAFTEY APPROVED.

Nope nope nope, this has apocalypse written all over it.

I agree. New super technology triggers Apocalypse and also creates magic. News at 11.

oh boy

why......woudl you make a white hole??? in physics it says its the asshole of a black hole .w. means theres coming all kinds of shit out of there, sooo if you dont know what floats in on the one end, why would you wait and look at the other end? .w. that cant end well V:

Because if you can control what comes out of it, you have a matter generator on your hands ;)

Heh. I did something similar in a sci-fi RP maybe a decade ago; artificial event horizon, very smol and tightly curved, like a tiny black hole, which accordingly output profoundly amounts of energy via hawking radiation. adjust the curvature of the horison to control output. Free energy or super-death-ray that'll split a planet like a ripe melon and keep going; later realised it would be creating negative mass/energy(not antimatter) as a byproduct to balance the entropy, which had neat applications, like a negative energy freeze ray - delete the heat.

Warp core breach in progress......

A hole that spews energy from another dimension? What could go wrong?! It's genius.

Uh. White hole core?

Hadalen I'm not sure that's a great idea. That's somehow WORSE than a black hole.

A black hole is easy enough to understand and avoid/contain. It consumes anything, even energy and light, that enters it's gravitational field. So just keep outside the range.

A white hole is...something else entirely. One that tends to PRODUCE things faster than you can grasp them.

Ah, but what if you can control it? ;)

And what if you only think you can control it (as is with every sci-fi 'if we can harness/control X it'll mean a golden age of humanity etc. ever)

Right, lets build it on the planet instead of the Moon for a test.

I like his O.O expression

Say isn't a White Hole just the opposite of a Black Hole?
Where a WH spews time INTO the universe?

I said "her" by accident

Oh yes; last minute prep. Nothing better than screwing around before hand to avoid any last minute mistakes during the grand entrance.

I'm not joking, btw. I'm told that helps.

Yep that looks like a horrible event incoming

Your humor and creativity are on point

I can see that ending badly

I might be wrong, but if this thing works how I think it should work, here comes the boom. Like... BOOM!

It looks like they activated the white hole core, saw that it's in fact a black hole, being puzzled for a moment going "Hang on... that's not the right color.. it should push stuff out, not suck in, right?" "right" "Then-" °universal collapse by vacuum°

So what is it?

The great barrier.
Perhaps, every advanced civilization ends not by some cosmic event out of their control, nor by some natural disaster, disease or plague... Just maybe, the answer to the fermi paradox is that at one point or another, sooner or later, every grand civilization will reach their greatest advancement... press a single button... and that's it.

And then it exploded, and everyone died.

Hadalen.... That name seems awfully familiar now that I think about it...
Fen-dad + universe changing device = ink-tail magic?
I don't know, I feel like I might be a whole chapter behind on the whole "realizing plot important information" thing. Or at least 5 pages or so...

Baelin is simply gorgeous!

I figured it was where Hadalen was during that last minute prep work.

Bealin face when his tush gets cupped XD

And the Imploding Exploding effect ends the universe.

When the sun on one's palm wasn't enough.

.... I find it oddly suspicious that Hadalen is the dark colored "create-y" magic... and the dark colored fox is named such.

I also find it suspicious that the white colored one there is all white... like the terrifying "Destroy everything it touches" magic.

*whispers* He touched the butt. ~Lloydd

hard to "subvert expectations" when one has no idea what to expect in the first place.

Lotta people expected a big boom. :p

And she's already watching both hating him and maybe being ashamed she got turned on by watching him slam the assistant

AND SUDDENLY: _pineapples!

"Baelin Vitrin"

Oooo, I think I know where this is going, and I like it!

Was on a MAJOR Vacation, and I come back to more Tale of Tails{To no surprise}, but with my Jex as a Cameo? You're way too Awesome Feretta~! :D

I know *poses, sparkling*

Wait wait wait... Wasn't Vitrin the power that is the opposite of Haladen, where it causes anything that tries to access it to collapse in upon itself?

That's not quite how that works, but yes, that is the name.

I feel like everyone is about to die, which sucks the lil white one is cute

Wha? I doubt anyone there is gonna die. If they did. Then how does Fen's Dad have the Message recorded for 'Future' events?

Plus. We have too many cuties in the pic to die. ;3

True, I feel like all but 1 of them is about to die

And cue fatal unexpected anomaly causing a critical system failure.

So an industrial accident waiting to happen, this white hole, AKA quantum energy source.

An industrial accident of galactic proportions. Meaning, if they had an accident with it, first their world explodes, then their star, and the rest of their system would fall to the novas.

A white hole; The opposite of a black hole that instead of absorbing matter it excretes matter. A hypothetical exit point of a black hole, where a black hole would be connected to a white hole in another universe, transferring matter from one universe to another.
Yeah...
Tampering with shit like that is a disaster in the making.

So......basically something within the ballpark of a "Black" hole, as in a big ass space vacuum?
*Gets ready to run*

Hm. I know a guy with that name except without the E, so it's spelled like the dwarf :P Fun to see some unique names going around!

I will be honest, the mink's face in the 3rd panel makes me think it looks feminine. But I do have to admit the mink's face in the 5th panel is funny is a silly looking way XD.

He IS feminine ;)

I just read through 5 chapters already and I must say I like how far its gone on and how the story plays out. I'm loving this story already

your core there looks to have turned into a black hole, and you've doomed your civilization.

Whoops. ;)

at least this way there aren't any lonely survivors

That cheeky butt grope aha!

I burned through this in two nights, didn't want to stop readying. Love this and can't wait for more!

The best Quote there: I have a bad Feeling about this.

Fixed it. :)

Heh, kinda fun to almost see my rl name in something, just minus a letter and more like the tolkien dwarf version :p