> "John VanSickle" a escrit
>> BTW, Dyson himself did not postulate a solid sphere, but a large
>> number of small bodies which collectively capture all of the output
>> from a given star.

Marc Jacquier wrote:
> How to avoid collisions between these bodies then?

They orbit at slightly different distances.

And I'll bet Dyson qualified the conjecture with some such phrase as "in 
the limit", i.e. he doesn't expect perfectly complete capture, but the 
amount of light captured gets ever more complete over time.

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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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