From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 21:29:16 MST
At 09:15 AM 2/19/02 +1030, Emlyn wrote:
>What I was originally asking, btw, was whether the concept of a dyson sphere
>(or cloud, or m-brain variant, or some other derivative of the
>shell-enclosing-power-source concept), would make sense using a black hole
>(into which you throw a lot of stuff), rather than the traditional star.
I wasn't going to mention this, because it sounds like self-promotion and I
already do too much of that, but this is pretty much the device I used in
THE WHITE ABACUS, except that instead of a black hole I used a magnetically
stabilized metric defect and instead of a Dyson surround I used a hollowed
asteroid, but power was generated by feeding gas into the thing's accretion
disk. No, I didn't really do anything much in the way of calculations,
although it's modelled on a Hawking micro-hole.
Damien Broderick
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