Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32194023-20170603220826/@comment-32194023-20170604090455

Rafip wrote: I am a player, not a doctor but it is easy for me to see that you are saying about traping souls with black holes. And I am saying that is is not possible due to nature of BH - you can put things into it but you will not get it back. Also keeping BH in Underground would be far more dangerous than having live H-bomb there.

...maybe Gaster was trying to create black holes in the hopes of getting a naked singularity? - But why? For what? What is the point of making a naked singularity = extremely dense object? The point of a naked singularity in this context would be to confine the soul. Alphys in entry n° 5 states that "determination" is what gives a human soul the "resolve to change fate". This, with the alternate timelines mechanism alluded to in Undertale, suggests to me that souls consist not just of the little hearts we see in battle (the spatial component), but also the decisions made by the person to whom the soul belongs, and thus the timelines those decisions cause (the temporal component). Hence the need to distort spacetime.

Indeed, a black hole would just swallow it up, but a naked singularity, not having an event horizon, would make it accesible. Though it is conjectured that black holes evaporate, emitting Hawking radiation, and possible evidence has been found (not yet proven), so that certainly could change a few things.