{"id":214367,"date":"2025-05-20T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/studying-the-physics-of-sci-fi-novel-ringworld-by-larry-niven"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:08:50","slug":"studying-the-physics-of-sci-fi-novel-ringworld-by-larry-niven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/studying-the-physics-of-sci-fi-novel-ringworld-by-larry-niven","title":{"rendered":"Studying the physics of sci-fi novel Ringworld by Larry Niven"},"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\/XIfBSPAz83U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Science students and academics wrote papers about the mathematics and physics of Ringworld after it was published. Larry Niven discusses whether this would happen if Ringworld was published today.<br \/> \u2013<br \/> Learn more \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/.\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/.<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<br \/> Official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP<\/a><br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA<\/a><br \/> LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About New Scientist:<br \/> New Scientist was founded in 1956 for \u201call those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences\u201d. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world\u2019s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science students and academics wrote papers about the mathematics and physics of Ringworld after it was published. Larry Niven discusses whether this would happen if Ringworld was published today. \u2013 Learn more \u27a4 https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/.\u2026 Subscribe \u27a4 https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS Get more from New Scientist: Official website: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP Facebook: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB Twitter: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW Instagram: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA LinkedIn: https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN About New [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}