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Subject: Can anyone explain what a Dyson sphere is and how it works?!

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i don't get it, how does it works?

  • 11.27.2011 1:52 AM PDT
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Basically, think, "The inside is bigger than the outside."

  • 11.27.2011 2:08 AM PDT
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Imagine an inverted Earth, where we live in the inside (below the crust).

  • 11.27.2011 2:13 AM PDT

Basically a ball of "slipspace" (ie: space warped into an extra dimension of some sorts) that's small on the outside but can house a complete planet or even bigger things inside.

  • 11.27.2011 2:14 AM PDT

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A section of space containing more matter than can fit in that are in normal space. Sort of like another dimension i guess.

[Edited on 11.27.2011 2:23 AM PST]

  • 11.27.2011 2:23 AM PDT

So in a way it looks like its a "controllable" small "orb" of a black hole. Right? With the exception that it's "man"made, and generally not black in the Halo universe.

  • 11.27.2011 2:30 AM PDT

It's the prestige that makes the illusion.

thanks, but i read that the forerunners could reduce a 2AU diameter sized system into a 30 cm diameter by sending it into slipspace.
Is that true?
If so, than the Forerunners needed a 2AU big slipspace portal, that's massive.

1AU: 149 597 870 691 meter

  • 11.27.2011 2:32 AM PDT

No, a dyson sphere was hypothesised by Freeman Dyson. Its just an artificial shell with the diameter of a planetary orbit, completely encasing the central star. It is the logical conclusion to Nivens original ringworld, which was a ring with the diameter of a planetary orbit.

The forerunner sunk one into a slipspace pocket to make it smaller and more managable, but thats not an intristic property of a dyson sphere.

  • 11.27.2011 9:07 AM PDT

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For those talking about slipspace for Dyson Spheres, no. That's just the Dyson Sphere Halsey has found herself in, which happens to be inside a slipspace bubble.

Think Halo Wars. That big planet that you travel to is a dyson sphere.

I also believe the Forerunner sphere seen in the Halo 4 trailer is another one.

  • 11.27.2011 9:28 AM PDT

Just a fun physics fact, but living inside of a sphere like that would never work! There would be no gravity! (it would be fun though) Look it up kids, with no outside gravitational force there is no gravity on the inside of a hollow sphere because all parts of it act on you equally!

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Posted by: Ghostfire 19
Just a fun physics fact, but living inside of a sphere like that would never work! There would be no gravity! (it would be fun though) Look it up kids, with no outside gravitational force there is no gravity on the inside of a hollow sphere because all parts of it act on you equally!


unless the sphere is rotating, then, the centrifugal force acts as gravity.

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Posted by: Ghostfire 19
Just a fun physics fact, but living inside of a sphere like that would never work! There would be no gravity! (it would be fun though) Look it up kids, with no outside gravitational force there is no gravity on the inside of a hollow sphere because all parts of it act on you equally!


unless the sphere is rotating, then, the centrifugal force acts as gravity.
Pretty much. Think of it like one of these, but on a much larger scale, so that you can't easily detect the speeds.

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We should know better, because we are better.

Another fun fact: the Dyson Sphere depicted in popular culture is actually different from Dyson's original idea. Dyson originally theorized a group of satellites orbiting a central star instead of a solid shell.

  • 11.27.2011 4:44 PM PDT

So.... Many... Fun.... Facts......

  • 11.27.2011 4:52 PM PDT

Think of the Tardis without the time travel and it being a 1963 policebox

  • 11.27.2011 5:09 PM PDT


Posted by: DeBleserMike
thanks, but i read that the forerunners could reduce a 2AU diameter sized system into a 30 cm diameter by sending it into slipspace.
Is that true?
If so, than the Forerunners needed a 2AU big slipspace portal, that's massive.

1AU: 149 597 870 691 meter


a baby forerunner could probably make a unsc grade slipspace drive. Its a safe bet that the combined effort and funding of the forerunners could pull it off.

  • 11.27.2011 8:20 PM PDT

think of a ball, and the inside lining of the ball is covered in dirt, vegetation, water, and all other forms of planetary things reside while the outside is covered in metal and machinery to help keep it all working by means of an artificial sun that is in the center to keep life alive.

  • 11.27.2011 8:47 PM PDT


Posted by: r c takedown
A section of space containing more matter than can fit in that are in normal space. Sort of like another dimension i guess.

no, thats where the forerunners put them after they were built, the (from a purely physical standpoint) are just inverted planets with a surface that is habitable on the inside, while the outside is just machinery and what not to keep it all working

  • 11.27.2011 8:50 PM PDT

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Einstein laws state that the faster one moves the thiner they get and so going at highspeeds in this slipspace system mainly compresses everything, according to the outside viewer not to those inside.

  • 11.27.2011 8:59 PM PDT