(03-06-2023, 05:37 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: So if you have a 1000m radius Throat then you can send a long thin ship through it - as long as it is less than 2000m long. If any part of anything transiting a WH is larger in any dimension than the radius of the Throat it will experience massive tidal strains, sufficient to break any chemical bond. But as long as you stay below that size, you can have long thin ships or spherical ships or cubes or random collections of shapes or whatever without problems.
Wait a minute.
You said: WH radius = 1 km
And: If ship length > WH radius, then ship breaks
And: If ship length > 2 km, then ship breaks
Thing is, if it's assumed that the "WH radius" and "2 km" in the second and third lines are the same, then you get
1 km = 2 km
which is obviously false. Did you perhaps mean to say "diameter" somewhere in your post?
Also, I gather that a big loose collection of ships all piled loosely together would be OK, even if the pile exceeded the size limit for a normal rigid ship (as long as the individual subunits didn't. Am I correct in assuming this?