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You can you use a giant mirror, that directs light to your ship's sail.
by monort 10y ago
You can you use a giant mirror, that directs light to your ship's sail.
- raverbashing 10y agoI really wonder what would happen if you really had a giant mirror reflecting all the Sun's energy back to itself
- fapjacks 10y agoIsn't that basically what happens inside the Sun's core anyways?
- quantumhobbit 10y agoIt would increase the sun's temperature causing it to expand. I guess eventually it would expand out to reach your dyson mirror. Of course there would be all sorts of secondary effects, lowering the density in the core could slow down the rate of fusion, increased temp would increase it, but no garuntee that the effects would cancel. Also depending on how far out your mirror is the core might not ever notice the change. The outer layers could heat up and destroy your mirror before the increased temperature reaches the core.