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A Dyson sphere wouldn't cause the star to significantly brighten and then wink out all at once.
by vkou 3y ago
A Dyson sphere wouldn't cause the star to significantly brighten and then wink out all at once.
- sillywalk 3y agoIn the book Pandora's Star (see comment above), the Dyson sphere wasn't physical, it was some sort of energy-type shield.
- teekert 3y agoYou got the reference ;) First thing I thought: if we had wormholes we could observe the event again. And indeed, the brightening is Probably from the construction phase of the sphere.
- vkou 3y agoOkay, if we're going to go that far beyond the realm of physics, perhaps we could consider my hypothesis that the star was obscured by a giant, invisible unicorn?
- sillywalk 3y agoI might add that Pandora's Star is a sci-fi book.
- bell-cot 3y agoDuring final assembly of the Dyson sphere, the astrodynamics contractor cranks the to-be-enclosed star's fusion rate way up - to brake the infall of the segments of the spherical shell with light pressure. Then, once all the shoring joints between the segments pass their load/shear inspections, the general contractor clears the AC to drop the fusion rate back to nominal. From a distance, the now-enclosed star seems to wink out in a very brief time.