[ExI] The Great Silence again

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon May 2 10:50:09 UTC 2011


On 30 April 2011 21:06, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> For a non rotating Dyson sphere that's thin enough the light pressure
> would balance the gravity from the sun.  The light pressure at the
> distance of the earth's orbit is around 9.3 N per square km.

Now that you make me think of it, in a non-rotating Dyson sphere
object on the internal surface would be bound to fall towards the sun,
right? The gravity of even a relatively thick surface would hardly
compensate...

-- 
Stefano Vaj




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