Re: Slow Re-entry

Bryan Derksen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:30:20 GMT, Joe Jefferson
> <jjstrshp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Mining the sun requires technology which doesn't currently exist. The
> >particle accelerator method can be used right now.
>
> Actually, you can mine the sun using particle accelerators too. A ring
> of particle accelerators orbiting around the solar equator to generate
> a toridal magnetic field to constrain solar wind, smaller rings
> hovering over the poles to form magnetic nozzles, and particle
> accelerators (or masers, or whatever - any power-beaming method works)
> to focus energy on the poles and induce enhanced flares.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting for details on several
> variations of this scheme.
>
> Of course, the scale of the operation is a bit larger than we can
> currently engineer - we'll need a partial Dyson sphere to power it.
> But then so is creating a comparable amount of matter with the
> pair-production method. This is all just a minor question of
> engineering.

Pshaw! The question I was answering was how to produce matter from
nothing (except sunlight)*, not how to most efficiently utilize the
sun's resources.


* My understanding is that true creation ex nihilo, without using even
an energy source, is only possible given certain special conditions -
the most important being that the experimenter has to be God.

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