Chapter 594: Chapter 590: Dyson Sphere
The largest observatory within Qicheng had beco the busiest place since two years ago, with people rushing to activate the telescopes, trying to catch the first glimpse of the “Dyson Sphere.”
Unfortunately, a thin curvature bubble distorted all external light, and people could only see a blurry image resembling a light bulb.
Nevertheless, more and more people at the observatory were eagerly awaiting the end of the curvature navigation, especially nurous students who were the most enthusiastic in their discussions!
“Dyson Sphere! It definitely looks like this… like this… add a tube here!” These were students who specialized in designing, and those studying design often excelled in drawing. They were sketching their concepts.
“When can we finally see the Dyson Sphere? I’m so anxious!”
“How long would it take for us to build a Dyson Sphere?”
A few seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys were chattering about this.
“Hmm… it might not be about ti, as we lack the technological strength, it would collapse quickly. What was our strongest material again… Super Alloy-zmax, far from sufficient.”
Constructing a Dyson Sphere requires imnse engineering capability.
Consider the Solar System, where the Sun’s mass accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System, with the remaining planets making up 0.14%.
Even if all the planets besides the Sun were used as materials for the Dyson Sphere, it would still be far from enough.
Other planetary systems encounter a similar issue, there just isn’t enough material.
So, what could be done?
“The first thod would involve dismantling parts of the Sun, but most of the Sun is hydrogen, and turning hydrogen into a solid is troubleso. The second thod, transporting planets from other planetary systems, such as moving a large number of planets from the neighboring Centauri Alpha Star. It’s difficult for humans to achieve either approach.”
Moreover, constructing a Dyson Sphere would require incredibly advanced technological capabilities, particularly in materials science, necessitating materials well beyond the limits of conventional ones!
Given the imnse gravitational force of stars, no conventional material can support a structural integrity under such gravitational stress. Not even if the Dyson Sphere were rotating at high speed, could it balance the gravitational force at every point.
For example, the poles, which are almost stationary—how could centrifugal force counteract gravity there?
Additionally, the Milky Way is in motion, as are the stars themselves.
Should an offset in position occur, without correction, it could lead to the Dyson Sphere colliding directly with the star, causing catastrophic outcos. Thus, the Dyson Sphere must be heat-resistant, have powerful propulsion, and be capable of withstanding potential starburst disasters.
Combining all these aspects, it’s an enormously challenging feat.
“So, this could be a Dyson Cloud then…”
“A Dyson Sphere is too difficult; a Dyson Cloud or a Dyson Ring might be simpler… If we just build a Dyson Cloud, maybe humans could try it.”
Before the words faded, the spaceship had already halted its curvature movent, as if abruptly freezing in the cosmic space.
With the curvature bubble no longer obstructing them, all images suddenly beca clear!
Many scread in awe at that mont, “It really is a Dyson Sphere!”
It truly was a Dyson Sphere!
In the telescopic view, a massive steel structure enveloped 70% of the star, slowly rotating like a circular boiler!
This huge “boiler” at that instant, opened a “lid” larger than Jupiter, revealing the star inside, bursting with flares!
Endless stellar rage erupted at that mont, brilliant flas spurting from the chromosphere far into space, continuing for millions of kiloters before reluctantly falling back under gravitational pull, thus forming a red loop. This celestial phenonon is known as “solar prominence.”
Reality proved to be even more astonishing than imagined.
The Dyson Sphere, it’s right here!
After a mont of silence, the observatory erupted in noise, with more and more people coming from afar, hoping to witness this true colossus with their own eyes.
Absolutely unbelievable!
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anwhile, governnt agencies were holding a special eting to discuss a series of plans for human integration into this interstellar trading market.
Zhang Yuan sat in his seat, looking at the related astronomical reports, also deeply stunned.
It was clear that this could not possibly be a creation of a Level 4 Civilization!
The mass of Tabby Star was 1.43 tis that of the Sun, about 2.2 million kiloters in diater, significantly brighter than the Sun. Yet the diater of this steel-fra Dyson Sphere was an astonishing 10 million kiloters!
It almost completely swallowed the entire star, leaving only so small “vents,”—well, these “vents” weren’t really small, each one hundreds of tis larger than Jupiter.
Because the Dyson Sphere was slowly rotating, periodic variations in light were observable from afar.
The star was violently emitting flas, yet the entire area barely felt the solar winds.
This was truly a colossal entity…
“A Constant Starship fueled by a star! Yes, a Constant Starship, its material mass might already be comparable to that of the star,” spoke a voice in the eting room, soone suddenly struck by inspiration.
“If this star were extinguished, I have no doubt, this Dyson Sphere could devour another star as its fuel!”
Humans and the Tos Civilization took over a thousand years just to build a War Star, which hardly compares, barely a drop in the bucket…
Next, an astronomical data point had everyone’s pupils dilating, as this place shockingly housed 100,000 planets of various sizes and an uncountably vast number of asteroids, possibly reaching hundreds of billions… They densely packed near the Dyson Sphere, within a few hundred astronomical units.
This number was completely beyond normal expectations. With so many planets, even the imnse gravitational pull of the Dyson Sphere coupled with the star couldn’t contain their chaotic movent, and collisions were likely to occur easily…
It was unknown where all these planets ca from. So might be Planet Fortresses, transported from distant interstellar civilizations, while others might be naturally occurring.
This beca the first unsolved mystery discovered by humans.
In fact, there were many unsolved mysteries about this Dyson Sphere, and with each discovery, people’s fascination with it deepened.
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