Tangentially related, this basically makes the argument that some black holes (like low mass X-ray binaries) are actually societies that have managed to control matter near the planck scale, best read as hard sci-fi: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;accelerating.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Smart-2011-TranscensionHypothesis-ActaAstronautica(Author%27sReformat).pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;accelerating.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Smart-2011-TranscensionHypo...</a>