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For a smaller enclosure, is there no alternative to a star? What's the purpose of the star anyways? Heat and light? What if the sphere was perfectly insulated.
by latch 15y ago
For a smaller enclosure, is there no alternative to a star? What's the purpose of the star anyways? Heat and light? What if the sphere was perfectly insulated. Perhaps once you replace a star with something else, it ceases being a dyson sphere (by definition)
(obviously, I'm not a physicist!)
- extension 15y agoStars are balls of matter massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion from their own gravity. The fusion reaction is what releases all the energy.