A4_3 Habitable Dyson Sphere
Abstract
Dyson Freeman described the concept of the Dyson Sphere in the paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infra-Red Radiation" [1]. This is a spherical structure built around a star by a technologically advanced civilization, designed to collect the energy output of its host star. This report explores the possibility of creating artificial gravity via rotation on a Dyson Sphere made of multi-layer graphene. By knowing the ultimate tensile strength of graphene, a maximum equatorial velocity can be calculated, and used to create artificial gravity. The maximum achievable acceleration is found to be ~0.01% of the gravity on Earth, which is barely noticeable.
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11/25/2012
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Shaw, E., Tudor, V., & Winkworth, D. (2012). A4_3 Habitable Dyson Sphere. Physics Special Topics, 11(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2078
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