: With our current technology it is not possible to build a device to control/use the energies of a : black hole, but this is my theory to achieve it if our technology is ready for it:

: To achieve the fantastic energies required for trans-light travel a huge power source is required. : Such a power source can be built by tapping the energy of a black hole. To trap a black hole : and use it a way must be found of containing the black hole inside a field of some sort. This can : be done as follows. Any black hole is completely defined by three quantities: its mass, its : charge, its angular momentum. The mass is simple, and for our purposes the bigger the better! : The black hole can be charged since the electrostatic field equations are not subject to : relativistic corrections etc. Electro-magnetic fields all travel at light speed anyway! Next is the : angular momentum. Now computer simulations have shown that a rapidly spinning black hole : turns into a torus or doughnut. Then a large metal rod can be passed through the middle. At the : center of the torus (the Eye of Harmony), we are outside of the event horizon and gravitational : fields are very low so the rod will not be torn apart. The black hole must then be charged by : firing millions of tonnes of charged particles at it. Then an opposite charge must be maintained : on the rod and the black hole is captured around the metal rod. Two huge fields must build : around the black hold to stop it from sliding up and down the metal rod. This is do-able.

: Now how do we use it ?

: To gain energy you use the rotational vortex method of Roger Penrose, and by using reusable : matter to get the energy you can tap off as much as you like. With such a power source set up, : one can build a dimensional collapse which enables you to shrink the apparent size of the : black-hole machine. This will also mean that the mass of the black hole will fall for external : observers. Another way of solving the mass problem is to use Higgs Boson particles to negate : mass, since the Higgs Boson is generally believed to be the origin of mass. Then the device can : become part of a normal spaceship. One can also change the relative time advancement rate of : the black-hole region of space and so gain vast amounts of energy from the Hawking radiation : that Black holes give off. This way the Black Hole loses mass and so you can turn the entire : mass of the Black Hole into energy. Also the Black Hole then maintains it's own containment : field. The important point is that one can set up the energies needed to causes the quantum : fluctuations in general relativity and so tunnel across the trans-light barrier. The universe : suddenly becomes yours for the taking. A NASA space shuttle fitted with a BH device becomes : more powerful than Darth Vadar's Death Star!