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I think it may have been with me

it's really strange that Tyr, despite being portrayed as an excellent scientist, says he doesn't know what caused the Mæron to bring Tucker over because he made a lot of "seemingly superfluous changes" in a single experiment, which is something you never do especially in code, and if you're working on something of dubious origin like the Mæron double so. 

 So either he's just lying to Tucker and he knows what caused it, or he's just Unfathomably incompetent 

That's quite a long message but I'll try my best to respond to all your questions, also a reminder that my field isn't astro so there may be answers I do not know.

You asked if by negative energy/mass i was referring to antimatter, and unlike the confusing naming would suggest, they actually have nothing to do with one another, antimatter has positive mass and energy and exists, negative mass/energy is purely theoretical

I dont know what you mean with the black hole needing to spin, all natural black holes spin as far as I know, I also don't know what you mean by doughnut shape, if you're referring to the singularity and the effects of the ergosphere on it then I can inform you I have absolutely no clue what happens there and no one really does.

You also mentioned that Tucker might have moved to a universe with a different handedness/parity, that was a creative idea i haven't heard before, took me some time to properly think about it, it's probably not what happened because a basic change of parity would fck up lots of stuff in noticeable ways.

as for all your worm hole related questions, I have no clue, I know they're natural solutions for einstien's field equations and unstable so would need negative mass/energy to work but no more than that.

You also asked if a black hole generator would be easier and/or safer than say, a Dyson sphere or swarm, to that i say they're both sci-fi, at the end of the day they're both just fictional ideas, so both are not practical at all

It's nice to know that people are that interested in physics, and you know a lot about this subject, but I wouldn't fret about finding an exact physical phenomenon for the Mæron, imo its nicer to theorize broadly, most sci-fi doesn't exactly follow the theory anyway, and to be honest I like it better that way

Hello, I'm that just a regular physicist you talked about, I might not be able to explain how the Mæron works as it is a work of fiction but I can speculate on how it might work

First I'll try to give some feedback on your own speculation and then I'll give my own.

 You are correct that time dilation occurs next to strong gravitational fields, however in theory this effect can be contracted by negative mass/energy, so I wouldn't rule it out

 you mentioned how if it was a black hole tucker would be dead(his electrons would be scrambled?), could you elaborate on this?, im not aware of any reason for this as some black holes, namely the "supermassive" ones at the centers of galaxies have event horizons big enough to avoid death by Spaghettification(stretching to death).

  Black holes are theoretically quite "easy" sources of "infinite" energy as you could accelerate things off them. 

Worm holes are theoretically naturally occurring, just highly unstable without exotic matter

What you said about falling into a black hole and seeing the universe's end is theoretically 100% true and very impressive for someone not in the field!. 

As for my own speculation, I'm more interested in the "hum" it's supposedly emitting, as that is (very) vaguely consistent with hawking radiation, especially with small sized black holes like this one would have to be.