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A Dyson shell with an inner surface partly covered by a mirror would be one incarnation of such a system ( although it still suffers from the stabilization problems as a non-propulsive shell does ), as would be a Dyson swarm with a large statite mirror ( see image above ).
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Dyson and shell
In response to letters prompted by this paper, Dyson replied, " A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible.
Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term " shell ".
The general concept of such an energy-transferring shell had been advanced decades earlier by author Olaf Stapledon in his 1937 novel Star Maker, a source that Dyson has credited publicly.
Operating from inside a massive base called the Shadow Star, which is essentially a Dyson sphere, or a shell around a star that can capture all of the available light, his network of informants and spies keep him abreast of any developments within the United Planets.
A shell ( or component, should a Dyson swarm be the design model used ) would absorb energy radiated onto its inner surface, utilize that energy to power its computer systems, and re-radiate the energy outwards.
A cut-away diagram of an idealized Dyson sphere | Dyson shell — a variant on Dyson's original concept — 1 Astronomical unit | AU in radius.
* The Dyson shell ( including its variation, the ringworld ) has appeared in many works of fiction, including the Star Trek universe.
* In Freelancer, The Dom ' Kavosh's Dyson shell that is inhabited by a drone race created by the Dom ' Kavosh, Nomads.
Dyson and with
Dyson is credited with being the first to formalize the concept of the Dyson sphere in his 1960 paper " Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infra-Red Radiation ", published in the journal Science.
Dyson has six children, two of them ( Esther and George ) with his first wife, mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and the other four with his second wife, Imme Dyson, a masters runner who married him in 1958.
Dyson has said that “ I think it ’ s almost true without exception if you want to win a Nobel Prize, you should have a long attention span, get hold of some deep and important problem and stay with it for 10 years.
Oppenheimer rewarded Dyson with a lifetime appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study, " for proving me wrong ," Oppenheimer said.
A seminal work by Dyson came in 1966 when, together with Andrew Lenard and independently of Elliott H. Lieb and Walter Thirring, he proved rigorously that the exclusion principle plays the main role in the stability of bulk matter.
Around 1979, Dyson worked with the Institute for Energy Analysis on climate studies.
Interview with Freeman Dyson discussing the effectiveness of strategic bombing in WWII, and also his efforts to have the escape hatches in Lancaster bombers enlarged in order to increase the numbers of aircrew surviving their aircraft being shot down.
Dyson disagrees with the famous remark by his fellow physicist Steven Weinberg that " With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil ; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
:* Comments on " The Question of Global Warming ", with a reply by Dyson, September 25, 2008
:* Comments on " Our Biotech Future ", with a reply by Dyson, September 27, 2007
:* Another comment on " Our Biotech Future ", with a reply by Dyson, October 11, 2007
* " In Praise of Open Thinking ", audio from a panel discussion with his son George Dyson, recorded 07-29-2004
* A radio interview with Freeman Dyson Aired on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show in 2009.
* Oral History interview transcript with Freeman J. Dyson 17 December 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
* " Disturbing the Universe ": BBC interview with Freeman Dyson, audio, 18 January 1980
Banks played well, but with the right back Len Chalmers carrying an injury, was powerless to prevent second half goals from Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson giving Spurs a 2 – 0 win and the first " double " of the 20th century.
ICANN was incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, with leading entrepreneurs and philanthropist Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman.
Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.
Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls ( rim walls ).
The Titans then drove to the St. Louis 10-yard line with six seconds remaining, but on the final play of the game, Rams linebacker Mike Jones tackled Tennessee wide receiver Kevin Dyson one yard short of the goal line to prevent a potential game-tying touchdown.
Two plays later, with the Titans facing 3rd down and 5 to go, McNair was hit by two Rams ' defenders, but he escaped and completed a 16-yard pass to Dyson to gain a first down at the Rams 10-yard line.
Dyson and inner
The Morlocks of this timeline have constructed a Dyson sphere around the inner solar system and use the Sun's energy to power it.
Dyson and surface
The idea's genesis came from Niven's attempts to imagine a more efficient version of a Dyson Sphere, which could produce the effect of surface gravity through rotation.
* 2. 81 · 10 < sup > 23 </ sup > m < sup > 2 </ sup > — surface area of a Dyson Shell with a radius of 1 AU.
The ring can be viewed as a functional version of a Dyson sphere with the interior surface area of 3 million Earth-sized planets.
Dyson and covered
** The Age profile Will Dyson, an Australian war artist who covered the First World War.
Dyson and by
Positions regarding existence after death were supported by some notable physicists such as Erwin Schrödinger and Freeman Dyson.
* Crank conjecture, a term coined by Freeman Dyson to explain congruence patterns in integer partitions
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure originally described by Freeman Dyson.
The concept of the Dyson sphere was the result of a thought experiment by physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, when he theorized that all technological civilizations constantly increased their demand for energy.
Dyson is best known for demonstrating in 1949 the equivalence of the formulations of quantum electrodynamics that existed by that time – Richard Feynman's diagrams, on the one hand, and, on the other, the operator method developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.
Robert Oppenheimer, in particular, was persuaded by Dyson that Feynman's new theory was as valid as Schwinger's and Tomonaga's.
Dyson recognized the formula as the pair correlation function of the Gaussian unitary ensemble, which has been extensively studied by physicists.
Also during the 1970s, Dyson worked on climate studies conducted by the JASON defense advisory group.
, Dyson is the president of the Space Studies Institute, the space research organization founded by Gerard K. O ' Neill.
The Dyson series, the formal solution of an explicitly time-dependent Schrödinger equation by iteration, and the corresponding Dyson time-ordering operator an entity of basic importance in the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, are also named after Dyson.
Since originally taking interest in climate studies in the 1970s, Dyson has suggested that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could be controlled by planting fast-growing trees.
*" The Question of Global Warming ", by Freeman Dyson, June 12, 2008
*" Our Biotech Future ", essay by Freeman Dyson, July 19, 2007
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