Thoughts about sphere worlds

[gregebowman]

This is why I gave up my dream of being an astronomer. Too much math! I'll take your word for it. But it would seem to me that if you have enough material, you could build a big enough shell around what would be the distance of a solar system. Maybe not the size of our solar system, but it would have to be big enough to trap a sun and not fry everyone inside it.

[Fyron]

Keep in mind that channelling most of the solar radiation out of the sphereworld would be one of those many engineering problems to be solved before building the SW, so it is a null issue.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

channel the energy and use it for your little projects...like moving the sphereworld, destroying black holes, creating pocket universes...you know, the little things.

[primitive]

And for those really adventourus mathemathicans:
Try to calculate the actual strength the sphere material need to have to stop it from collapsing at the poles (earth orbit, spinning so it has 1 G at equator), using all available building materials in the solar system (except the sun) for the construction.

You would have to discard the Atom and find another way to connect Quarks to get a material strong enough.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

You would have to discard the Atom and find another way to connect Quarks to get a material strong enough.

of course. get more articulate ducks.

i'm in a weird mood.

[PvK]

If the area is 550 million Earth-profiles, then I think you're probably going to want to import some material, or find away to make the sun pop you a bubble of matter to exactly the desired radius.

Good luck...

PvK

[gregebowman]

Heck, in the Star Trek universe, anything seems possible. But hey, that's supposed to be our future, so who knows. Anything could be possible. Maybe not in 10,000 lifetimes, but it could be possible.