Van Den Broeck warp (was Re: dyson sphere stability)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 22:54:03 MST


At 05:43 PM 1/12/00 -0500, Eliezer wrote:

>Personally, I'll stick with a Solar-System-sized, Milky-way-massed
>computer of interlaced negative and positive matter, so the whole thing
>weighs three grams and doesn't collapse into a black hole. Wrap the whole
>thing in a fractal Van Der Broeck warp so it fits in your pocket and
>you've got the perfect living space.

This is so cute. Anyone wondering what a Van Den [sic] Broeck warp is might
look at Dr Cramer's accessible piece at

http://www.analogsf.com/0002/av0002.html

Damien Broderick



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