Gedankenexperiment - beautiful ideas in a sometimes ugly world.
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:11 am
There is a lot energy around us in the universe in the form of matter, the motion of planets, stars and other exotic quasi-stellar objects and so on. Trouble is unlocking and utilising this energy requires energy too, lots of it!
Enter the Dyson sling shot! No not the overblown vacuum cleaner salesman whose machines suck, barely, but physicist and polymath Freeman Dyson's idea.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03 ... slingshot/
Here, English born associate professor at Columbia University, David M Kipping takes the idea one step further.
Enter the Dyson sling shot! No not the overblown vacuum cleaner salesman whose machines suck, barely, but physicist and polymath Freeman Dyson's idea.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/03 ... slingshot/
Here, English born associate professor at Columbia University, David M Kipping takes the idea one step further.