8 Times Star Trek Actually Did Change The Laws Of Physics
4. Red Matter
Need a black hole? Need to go back in time and create an alternate timeline? Need something big and red to give some color to your spaceship? Look no further than this giant glob of Red Matter! Send 300 payments of $19.99 to Quark's Emporium TODAY! Ok, I don't think any of us are going to send Quark any of our hard earned Gold Pressed Latinum, but if there is a bigger MacGuffin device in Trek lore, then I'd like to see it and sell it for a cool billion dollars! But first, let's see what Red Matter is. It's red... wet looking... and makes black holes when placed in contact with the vacuum of space or a planet's core. Now let's see what's wrong with this and how it changes the laws of physics. First off, a black hole is created when a massive dead star collapses in on itself, warping space in such a way that it becomes a perfect black mass whose gravity is so great that not even light can escape it. That said, how is a small part of a giant red gelatinous blob going to create a black hole large enough to swallow an entire planet? MacGuffin, indeed.
Shawn “Loc Da’Borg” Jackson is a native of Mississippi, born in Vicksburg and raised in Philadelphia in Neshoba County. At the age of 15 he was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and, later into his early 20s, he became Profoundly Deaf. Writing has been one of the main staples of his life and he has dedicated a good portion of it to educate, entertain and enthrall with the written word.
