Dan Piponi on Nostr: Ringworlds and Dyson spheres can be stable It's been known since forever that a ...
Ringworlds and Dyson spheres can be stable
It's been known since forever that a ringworld orbiting a star isn't stable. But that's just when there's one star. If there are two then stability becomes possible. This is getting closer to what Iain Banks called an orbital.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12806 
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