{"id":193974,"date":"2024-08-03T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/are-dyson-spheres-actually-possible"},"modified":"2024-08-03T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T15:24:51","slug":"are-dyson-spheres-actually-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/are-dyson-spheres-actually-possible","title":{"rendered":"Are Dyson Spheres Actually Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zU_R2ghfsBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Use code coolworlds at <a href=\"https:\/\/incogni.com\/coolworlds\">https:\/\/incogni.com\/coolworlds<\/a> to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. The idea of Dyson Spheres was a radical proposal by the physicist Freeman Dyson, an enormous shell of material enveloping a star. Dyson\u2019s idea may be over half a century old, but interest in looking for such objects has only grown in the decades since. But how would such structures work? Are they physically even possible? And what might someone use them for? Today, we dive into the physics of Dyson spheres. Written &amp; presented by Prof. David Kipping. Edited by Jorge Casas. Special thanks to Jason Wright for fact checking. \u2192 Support our research: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolworldslab.com\/support\">https:\/\/www.coolworldslab.com\/support<\/a> \u2192 Get merch: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/cool-wor\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/cool-wor<\/a>\u2026 Check out our podcast: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coolworldspodcast\">@coolworldspodcast<\/a> THANK-YOU to T. Widdowson, D. Smith, L. Sanborn, C. Bottaccini, D. Daughaday, S. Brownlee, E. West, T. Zajonc, A. De Vaal, M. Elliott, B. Daniluk, S. Vystoropskyi, S. Lee, Z. Danielson, C. Fitzgerald, C. Souter, M. Gillette, T. Jeffcoat, J. Rockett, D. Murphree, M. Sanford, T. Donkin, A. Schoen, K. Dabrowski, R. Ramezankhani, J. Armstrong, S. Marks, B. Smith, J. Kruger, S. Applegate, E. Zahnle, N. Gebben, J. Bergman, C. Macdonald, M. Hedlund, P. Kaup, W. Evans, N. Corwin, K. Howard, L. Deacon, G. Metts, R. Provost, G. Fullwood, N. De Haan, R. Williams, E. Garland, R. Lovely, A. Cornejo, D. Compos, F. Demopoulos, G. Bylinsky, J. Werner, S. Thayer, T. Edris, F. Blood, M. O\u2019Brien, D. Lee, J. Sargent, M. Czirr, F. Krotzer, I. Williams, J. Sattler, B. Reese, O. Shabtay, X. Yao, S. Saverys, A. Nimmerjahn, C. Seay, D. Johnson, L. Cunningham, M. Morrow, M. Campbell, B. Devermont, Y. Muheim, A. Stark, C. Caminero, P. Borisoff, A. Donovan &amp; H. Schiff. REFERENCES \u25ba Wright, J. 2020, \u201cDyson Spheres\u201d, Serbian Astronomical Journal, 200, 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.16734\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.16734<\/a> \u25ba Dyson, F. 1960, \u201cSearch for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation\u201d, Science, 131, 1667: <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/196\">https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/196<\/a>\u2026 \u25ba Dyson, F. 1960, Science, 132,250 \u25ba NASA IRB JWST Report 2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploa\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploa<\/a>\u2026 \u25ba Papagiannis, M. D. 1985, \u201cSETI \u2014 a look into the future.\u201d, The search for extraterrestrial life: recent development, 543: <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/198\">https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/198<\/a>\u2026 \u25ba Scoggins, M. &amp; Kipping, D. 2023, \u201cLazarus stars: numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting as a life extension strategy\u201d, MNRAS, 523, 3251: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2210.02338\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2210.02338<\/a> MUSIC Licensed by <a href=\"http:\/\/SoundStripe.com\">SoundStripe.com<\/a> (SS) [shorturl.at\/ptBHI], Artlist.io, via CC Attribution License (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/<\/a>\u2026) or with permission from the artist. 0:34 Tamuz Dekel \u2014 Quiet Pull 3:05 We Dream of Eden \u2014 Discovery 4:23 Hill \u2014 World of Wonder [<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7kYX7G\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7kYX7G<\/a>\u2026 ] 6:28 Chris Zabriskie \u2014 Music from Neptune Flux 4 8:59 Hill \u2014 Arctic Warmth 11:54 Hill \u2014 Northern Borders 15:13 Hill \u2014 Fragile 17:45 Indive \u2014 Trace Correction CHAPTERS 0:00 Prologue 0:39 Inception 3:11 Incogni 4:27 Mechanical Stability 8:31 Gravitational Stability 11:08 Stellar Feedback 13:42 Computational Limits 16:23 Rings and Swarms 17:45 Outro and Credits #DysonSphere #Astronomy #CoolWorlds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use code coolworlds at https:\/\/incogni.com\/coolworlds to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. 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